The Sky After Rain : A Novel

Amnaj Boonngamanong, owner of a Florida gulf coast bar, En La Playa, is forced to decide whether to sell his niece to pay gambling debts to a gangster known for his brutality to women or to risk his own life by refusing. He sells his niece.His decision sets off a chain of deadly events-as unstoppable as the hurricane that is battering the coastline-that alters the lives of his family, the undocumented immigrants in his bar, a prizefighter with no hands, a veteran of the Afghanistan war, and a toddler lost at sea.Told from multiple points of view, The Sky After Rain charts the depths the characters will go to endure the storms in their lives and to find salvation in the bonds they form with each other.The Sky After Rain might remind readers of John Hawkes's The Lime Twig for its darkness and plot obscurity, of William Gass's novella "The Pedersen Kid" in its repetitive themes, and of William Faulkner's use of multiple narrators in As I Lay Dying.If anything makes it unique, it's the use of various languages--Thai script, Spanish, English--in the telling of the story. Less unique, but also not so common, is a portrait of a non-detective, non-Bangkok setting for Thai people.

• | Author: D. E. Lee
• | Publisher: Brighthorse Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1944467033
• | ISBN-13: 9781944467036