Min Fong Ho is an American author of Chinese descent who grew up in Thailand. Her story Hush! is evocative of her childhood home outside Bangkok which was, as she describes it on her web page, "an airy house next to a fishpond and a big garden, with rice fields, where water buffalo wallowed in mudholes, on the other side of the palm trees. I liked the usual things - eating roasted coconuts and fried bananas, chasing catfish in the grass in the rain." This world from Min Fong Ho's childhood is... read more
