Dust in Our Veins - Paperback

by Tom Glass (Author)

Slippery Stream Banks Village has droughts, dust, and thumping frogs. It's a rural Thai village rich in community and interesting people.

There's Old Mr. Pote with his secret. There's Uncle Song, ready to bet on anything. There's Grenade Hands, who boxes his way to national fame.

And there's Het, the narrator, who introduces us to his village. Het tells us about the community quest to win a soccer ball, the skinny village lizards, and the staircase that leads up to nothing.

Through Het's stories, we learn about the people he knows and the challenges they face together. But does Het have a talent that will lead him away from his Slippery Stream Banks home?

Dust in Our Veins tells the story of Het's village and the extraordinary things he sees in the ordinary routines of rural Thai life.

Author Biography

Tom Glass grew up in Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA from Penn State. He later received an MA in fiction writing from the University of Florida and a doctorate in teaching English as a second language from Purdue University. He volunteered with the Peace Corps in Thailand and ended up teaching for sixteen years in the provinces of Udon Thani and Mahasarakham, both in northeastern Thailand. Today he lives near Washington, DC, with his wife, Noke, and their son, Nat. He is the author of Even a Little Is Something: Stories of Nong.