Laos


The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos
Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2)
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
Disco for the Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)
Curse of the Pogo Stick (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #5)
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
Run Me to Earth
The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7)
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos
Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8)
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos
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Tucker Elliot
No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years. It’s a paradox like civilization’s other great rivers—be it the Nile, Indus, Euphrates, Ganges or China’s Sorrow the Huang He—for without its waters life is a daily struggle for survival; yet with its waters life is a daily bet that natural disasters and diseases will visit someone else’s village, because it’s not if, but when it’s going to happen that’s the relevant ques ...more
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Ben  Rhodes
Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the history of the world. From 1964 to 1973, the United States dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Laos to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail and try to stanch a Communist insurgency—more than was dropped on all of Germany and Japan during World War II. There were 580,000 bombing missions, which averages out to one every eight minutes for nine years. Sometimes, U.S. planes returning to Thailand from missions over Vietnam indiscriminately droppe ...more
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