{"product_id":"sightseeing-9780802117885","title":"Sightseeing","description":"\u003cp\u003eSightseeing is a debut written by a young  award-winning Thai-American writer. Set in contemporary Thailand  these stories are generous  radiant tales of family bonds  youthful romance  generational conflicts  and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm  Edenic setting. The stories in Sightseeing present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes. In the prizewinning opening story  \"Farangs \" the son of a beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty tourist  and the confrontation that ensues between the native boy and the girls American boyfriend culminates wondrously amid flying mangoes and Clint Eastwood - a pet pig - swimming out to sea. In \"Sightseeing \" the much-anticipated holiday of a young man about to leave for college and his loving and fiercely independent mother becomes a different kind of pilgrimage altogether when they are forced to confront the mothers impending blindness. The concluding novella  \"Cockfighter \" is \"an astonishing coming-of-ager\" (Kirkus Reviews)  in which a young girl witnesses her proud fathers valiant but foolhardy battle against a local delinquent whose familys vicious stranglehold on the villagers has passed down unchecked through generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648251912245,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802117880","price":23.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802117885.jpg?v=1781713815","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sightseeing-9780802117885","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}