Noodle Trails, a travel memoir: Fair Trade, Dung Trade and Travels in Thailand and beyond (Noodle Trails, travel memoirs)

Failed comedienne and heartbroken idiot flees to a Thai beach hut to recover. Ten years later, from the same hut come her silly, sweet tales of mangoes, lizards, and a whole new life. For many winters she escaped to Thai sunshine and an importing business, but not now: she’s broke, alone and discouraged. This trip could be her last. She bid farewell to her Fair Trade business partners. No more elephant dung paper, no more brass jewelery from old bombshells, no more utensils from coconuts. But one idiotic woman can do some good in this world, and this one did. This is her love-letter to all the people who helped her see that tsunamis, heartbreaks and other losses can be survived. Join her for a journey of edible insects, singing lizards, and hopeful transformation. Plus an awful lot of elephant dung.