Siam: Or, The Woman Who Shot a Man

“A Joan Didionesque heroine . . . in Graham Greene’s Far East . . . a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson…