Bangkok, Oh Boy! How the Tsunami Affected the Lives of a Thai Money Boy and Two American Professors

Gay and straight characters clash as the author examines the ecstatic, aching relationship between Mat, an aging bisexual American professor, and Song, an endearing, exasperating Bangkok money boy, their effort to communicate, commit and find enlightenment. The pair meet shortly after Mat arrives in Bangkok to research the life of King Rama VI (the grandson of the more famous king of THE KING AND I) whom he believes was gay. They love, fight, struggle and separate as Mat returns to his American partner of many years. Towering over all is whether Song survived the tsunami in Phuket and whether Mat found him when he returned to Thailand to search for his beloved. Spice, romance, charm, humor, anger, eroticism, sex as commodity, Western expectations, Thai traditions, Christianity and Buddhism meet head on this debut novel.