{"product_id":"arid-dreams-stories","title":"Arid Dreams: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947302715623,"sku":"9781936932566","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_3b564f7c-a5c5-4b8d-996c-53033b523b86.jpg?v=1775486381","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/arid-dreams-stories","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}