Bangkok Wakes to Rain : Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford 'Fiction with a Sense of Place' award new-arrivals-301022 Soy Sauce for Beginners reveals

Soy Sauce for Beginners reveals the triumphs and sacrifices that shape one woman’s search for a place to call home

it wasn't just a temporary aberration

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And Andy might not be the final victim

Bangkok Wakes to Rain : Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford 'Fiction with a Sense of Place' award new-arrivals-301022 Soy Sauce for Beginners revealsA house in Bangkok is the confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth century Siam. A post WWII society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary future. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the resident spirits. A young woman tries to outpace