Only You Farang Are So Easy to Come and Leave

Summary Mai Nardone’s story “Only You Farang Are So Easy to Come and Leave” presents Lara, a teenager whose parents move to their house in the borders of Bangkok in 1997 after the Asian economic crisis. The family had to downsize to a smaller house because the father lost his job in finance. Even though their economic situation has worsened, Lara still goes to an international British school. One day, Lara follows her father because he took on the habit of disappearing without saying where he is going. Lara suspects he might have a mistress but discovers her father is