Spanning decades and perspectives, seamlessly shifting between the gothic and the tenderhearted, Welcome Me to the Kingdom announces the arrival of an immensely talented new voice in literary fiction. Orbiting the devastating financial crisis of 1997, these interwoven stories 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 oprhaned 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 a New York Times Editors' Choice and long-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He's received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Kundiman, and MacDowell, and he lives in Bangkok.
