Ira Sukrungruang

This Jade World (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

2022 Book of the Year Award from the Chicago Writers Association 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist in Memoir 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist This Jade World centers on a Thai American who has gone through a series of life changes. Ira Sukrungruang married young to an older poet. On their twelfth anniversary, he received a letter asking for a divorce, sending him into a despairing spiral. How would he define himself when he was suddenly without the person who shaped and helped mold him into the person he is? After all these years, he asked himself what he wanted and found no answer. He did not even know what wanting meant. And so, in the year between his annual visits to Thailand to see his family, he gave in to urges, both physical and emotional; found comfort in the body, many bodies; fought off the impulse to disappear, to vanish; until he arrived at some modicum of understanding. During this time, he sought to obliterate the stereotype of the sexless Asian man and began to imagine a new life with new possibilities. Through ancient temples and the lush greenery of Thailand, to the confines of a stranger's bed and a devouring couch, This Jade World chronicles a year of mishap, exploration and experimentation, self-discovery, and eventually, healing. It questions the very nature of love and heartbreak, uncovering the vulnerability of being human.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496228857
• Artikelnr.: 72454643

Autorenporträt

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of five books, including Buddha’s Dog and Other Meditations, Southside Buddhist, an American Book Award winner, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy. He is the president of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com) and is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
The First    
I
I Am Sad
In 1997
Touch
A Brief History of Sex
Stupid Men
This Bed That Was Not My Bed
Mount Crested Butte
July 10
II
After the Hysterectomy
The Gastropub    
Sex Education    
The Abyss
The Impossible Dream
The Red Balloon
Giggles
July 10    
III
What I Want
Bed, Bath, and Beyond
The Sleep of the Restless
It’s Raining
July 10
IV
Ruins
Fortune
July 10
V
Inked
Flesh of the Land
Man Baby
The Talk of the Body
July 10
VI
Monarchs and Memory
The Broken Hearts Club
To Have, to Hold
Flowers    
Michael Chang
Signs
July 10
VII
At the Border
Balance
Lesbians
Invisible Partners
July 10
VIII
Okay
That Long Couch
Goodbye
XI
The Next Life