NEW BOOK - The Monsoon Bride [04.08.2011]
The new book by Michelle Aung Thin, The Monsoon Bride, was recently published by Text.
Praise for The Monsoon Bride:
“[Michelle Aung Thin’s original voice] evokes a viscerally beautiful world and a heady journey into the consequences of love. A wonderful read.” — Alice Pung
Book blurb:
Winsome is just married and filled with anticipation. Her new husband is a stranger—one of the suitors chosen for her and the other mixed-race girls from the men who apply to the orphanage. But as the night train rattles towards her new home she sees possibility in this uncertain destiny. She knows she is headed for a new life in the metropolis.
She does not know about Rangoon, this city cradled in the arms of rivers. That it is about to be torn apart in the struggle between its ancient owners and new masters. That it will seduce her, possess her senses and change utterly her notion of what kind of woman she can be. When she meets Jonathan—when the monsoon comes—she begins to find out.