Lek - The Beginning: The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya

Lek - The Beginning returns readers to the rice fields of northern Thailand and the life Lek led before Pattaya, before the bars and before the wider world closed in. Born the eldest of four in a poor farming family, Lek's life is ordinary, hard and shaped by duty until the day her father dies and hidden debts threaten the family farm. At twenty-one she becomes the only person who can prevent foreclosure and keep her siblings in school. This is the story of the home she loved, the grandmoth...