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Orbiting the devastating financial crisis of 1997, the interwoven stories of Welcome Me to the Kingdom introduce us to three families--a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, a family abandoned by their white American patriarch, and an adoptive brotherhood of orphaned boys--who employ various schemes and strategies to conceal, betray, lie, and seduce their way to achieving the "good" life.
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Mai Nardone is a Thai and American writer. Welcome Me to the Kingdom, his first book, was published by Random House in 2023. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and long-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Mai has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Kundiman, and MacDowell, and he lives in Bangkok.
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