The Brother Hood of Kaeng Khoi (P)

    Deep, secret, and terrible feelings seized my soul...I was lost in the Himmaphan forest, secretly watching two demigods, invitsible to the human world, as they fell into the rhythms of their own dance.

    What is truth? How much of what we see is illusion, how much reality? Hard to fugure for anyone, especially a bereaved, uprooted adolescent. Yet something cries out for resolution here. Young Lap is unhappy with just about every one and everything, and the world seems ot feel the same way towards him. He gets one view from the father who dominates his life, and quite another from his mother, who communes with the Thai spirit world of ghosts and demons.

    Lap Lae and Kaeng Khoi are high-strung and headstrong brothers from a dysfunctionat household in a small Thai town in the late twentieth century. In the Brotherhood of Kaeng Khoi, after tracing their family origins we share their struggless as they grow towards adulthood in a mountain monastery in a treehouse in the woods with the girls next door. Can they negotiate the traps, calamities, and misadventures to emerge with integrity and a clear sense of who they are, and how to move forward with their lives?

Part 1 Born of the Tales
Part 2 Building Histories
Part 3 In Himmaphan Forest
Part 4 Cremation of Truth
Part 5 Ashes of Deception