{"product_id":"arid-dreams-stories","title":"Arid Dreams: Stories","description":"A social realist exploration from Thailand’s preeminent contemporary woman writer: \"each of her stories poses its own moral challenge, pleasurable and unsettling at once.\" (NPR.org)\nIn thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A politician’s wife imagines her life had her husband’s accident been fatal, a man on death row requests that a friend clear up a misunderstanding with a sex worker, and an elevator attendant feels himself wasting away while trapped, immobile, at his station all day.\nWith curious wit, this collection offers revelatory insight and subtle critique, exploring class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing country.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1936932563\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1936932563.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Poopoksakul, Mui|Pimwana, Duanwad\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41403934605370,"sku":"DBV.1936932563.G","price":6.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1936932563-0.jpg?v=1778432999","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/arid-dreams-stories","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}