Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy

by Ira Sukrungruang

Book Overview

On one side of the door, the rich smell of sweet, spicy food and the calm of Buddhist devotion; on the other, the strangeness of a new land.
When Ira Sukrungruang was born to Thai parents newly arrived in the U.S., they picked his Jewish moniker out of a book of "American" names. In this lively, entertaining, and often hilarious memoir, he relates the early life of a first-generation Thai-American and his constant, often bumbling attempts to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826219322
• ISBN13: 9780826219329
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"