calling home

Avo had a mixture of news from home today. Her elder sister was in tears as the rains ten days ago had rotted the bean crop, their only source of income. A 19 year old nephew was coming home drunk and truculent nearly every night. He woke Avo’s mother up at 3am shouting something about the water being too far away. A young woman from the same village had got her revenge on a wayward husband by sleeping on two occasions with a wealthy drug dealer who had rewarded her handsomely. Meanwhile, another nephew who leaves his wife and young children sleeping each night to work in a gay bar, had met up with an elderly farang gentleman who had bought him a second-hand pickup.

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