Tone Deaf in Bangkok : And Other Places

by Brown, Janet

• ISBN13: 9781934159125
• ISBN10: 1934159123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

As a Bookseller, Janet Brown had Every Opportunity to Learn About Bangkok Before She Moved There. Guidebooks lay the groundwork, photography books set the mood, but nothing prepared her for what she found-a city as sensuous, irreverent, reverent, and indiscreet as the stories she tells in Tone Deaf in Bangkok.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 4
Careful, You're Speaking of the City I Love	p. 8
Second Childhood	p. 14
Becoming a Guava	p. 20
Tone Deaf and Tongue-Tied	p. 26
A Refuge from "Polite"	p. 30
Nausea and Desire	p. 38
Learning Thai	p. 44
Envying Travelers	p. 54
Ghosts In the City of Angels	p. 60
Shopping	p. 101
Survivor	p. 72
Suvaporn's Daughter	p. 80
Food for Every Mood	p. 86
Three Seasons	p. 92
Toilet Paper	p. 96
Escapes From Bangkok	p. 100
Among the Living	p. 106
Today, Where Do You Go?	p. 116
All Dressed Up With No Place to Go	p. 122
Drowning In the Deep End	p. 126
Skytrain Tourists	p. 134
Going Home Again	p. 140
A Few of My Favorite Things	p. 146
Fireweed and Jasmine	p. 152
Author & Photographer	p. 156
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