Love this book

I finished My sister's keeper , from Jodi Picoult, when i was in BKK. I finally started on a new one today, a thai author ,educated in Chicago, writes about his homeland. Its hilarious starting para, with his first chapter titled "farangs". It means whites in thai.

*****



"June : The Germans come to the island- speaking like spitting. July:the Italians, the French, the British, the Americans. The Italians like pad thai, its affinity with spagetti. They like light fabrics, sunglasses, leather sandals.The French likes plump girls, rambutans, baring their breasts. The british are here to work on their pasty complexions, their penchant for hashish. Americans are the fattest, the stingiest of the bunch. They may pretend to like pad thai , but twice a week they need their culinary comforts, their hamburgers and their pizzas. They are also the worst drunks. "

Excerpt from Sightseeing, Rattawut Lapcharoensap