The Glass Hotel, Emily St John Mandel parenting Letters from Thailand

Letters from Thailand

and experiences—that can mean the difference between success and failure

Returning to Japan in the early 1970s

including the writer Nathan Zuckerman

many were British

The Glass Hotel, Emily St John Mandel parenting Letters from ThailandVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half brother, Paul, scrawls a note on a windowed wall of the hotel: Why don't you swallow broken glass. Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company named Neptune