13 BLESS THIS HOUSEThe next day, Lek was ‘sick’. She didn’t know why. She said that it couldn’t be a hangover, because she couldn’t remember drinking that much.
Everyone else could though.
So, her sister drove her into Phichai to do some essential household shopping. They didn’t ask Craig if he wanted to go, but he didn’t want to anyway. Lek would not have gone either if she didn’t really, really have to. She had to get some special bits and pieces for the monks the next day.
Chalita was a strong, independent woman, like Lek, although for different yet similar reasons. Chalita had married a local boy too but they had decided to move away as soon as they could after getting married. Neither of them had wanted to work in the fields, so they had moved to Bangkok and found jobs in factories
