Title: Confessions of a mail order bride
Description: Wanwadee is born in Thailand. She hears and learns about a golden America. She wishes to go there some day but she is betrothed to a richer Thai man in an arranged marriage. On an outing with her brother and fiance, her fiance kills her brother in a fight. This leaves her future in Thailand empty. She signs up to become a mail-order bride to America. This is a story of her life and adjustments to life in America.
Subjects: Mail order brides, Biography, Thai Americans, Thais, united states, Assimilation (sociology), New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general
Places: United States
People: Wanwadee Larsen
Time periods: 1976-86