The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon #joyce Queen Melisende

Queen Melisende

AND THERE'S NOTHING MORE HAWTHORNE THAN WINNING

But when he reveals his story

Working together

Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story

The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon #joyce Queen MelisendeWinner of a PEN Translates grant. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on