{"product_id":"9781936932566","title":"Arid Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith curious wit, this collection offers revelatory insight and subtle critique, exploring class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press at CUNY, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42746645905469,"sku":"9781936932566","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781936932566_p0.jpg?v=1771580351","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781936932566","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}