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Talk Thai : the adventures of Buddhist boy / Ira Sukrungruang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sukrungruang, Ira.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sukrungruang, Ira--Childhood and youth.
- Sukrungruang, Ira.
- Thai Americans--Biography.
- Thai Americans.
- Buddhists--United States--Biography.
- Buddhists.
- Thai Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Thai Americans--Illinois--Oak Lawn--Biography.
- Immigrants--Illinois--Oak Lawn--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- Oak Lawn (Ill.)--Biography.
- Oak Lawn (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The white elephant
- Under the hand of Buddha
- A world of adjusters
- My father's swing
- Haunted trails
- The falls
- Bad son
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-7210-X
- OCLC:
- 646068189
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