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Mar 16, 2018savtadina rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I was delighted by the mystery Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness. It was set in Chang Mai, a city in northern Thailand. The protagonist is a nurse ethicist who spent a year in Chicago, learning more about her field. Three main stories weave within the book: a mysterious case of a man brought in dead to the ER for a death certificate, an American man who suffered a serious accident (and appears to be brain dead) when attacked by an elephant, and a poor man from a rural area who sits on the floor and disappears when people try to talk with him. And then there is the side story of a 40-year-old VW Bug. It is a slow-paced but very thoughtful, well-organized story, with interesting thoughts about people in general and modern Thai behavior. The main character carefully thinks through the other characters may be doing. I found it fascinating! The include: "When someone does what we think they should do--when they behave as we expect--we stop paying attention to them." "If you want to teach someone your way of thinking, you need to be fluent in theirs."