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Karunya

The Gentle Rain from Song Wat

Nachanok Ladys
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‘My dear child,
If your father has left an indentation on my ring finger,
And you stretch marks on my stomach,
He has likewise left a permanent engraving.’

The story of Lalana, a transgender man who gave birth to a daughter.

Going back in time to her daughter’s first birthday, at the dining table where her husband and daughter blow out the birthday candle together, she finds out that she is a man in the body of a woman; she finds out that she is, in truth, a man.

And once he admits to his husband that he has changed, his answer is: he can’t embrace what Lal is, and he needs time to come to terms with it.

Then, during that time of change, Lal meets a man.

He has a house on Song Wat road, and that house becomes Lalana’s refuge. From the day they met by chance onwards, Lal has visited him again time after time, reason after reason, for carnal desires and bodily passions that he has for him, and for the compassion that he shows Lal—shows Lal’s male self.

Published: Jun/2026

ISBN: 9789815362404

Length: 208 Pages

Karunya

The Gentle Rain from Song Wat

Nachanok Ladys

‘My dear child,
If your father has left an indentation on my ring finger,
And you stretch marks on my stomach,
He has likewise left a permanent engraving.’

The story of Lalana, a transgender man who gave birth to a daughter.

Going back in time to her daughter’s first birthday, at the dining table where her husband and daughter blow out the birthday candle together, she finds out that she is a man in the body of a woman; she finds out that she is, in truth, a man.

And once he admits to his husband that he has changed, his answer is: he can’t embrace what Lal is, and he needs time to come to terms with it.

Then, during that time of change, Lal meets a man.

He has a house on Song Wat road, and that house becomes Lalana’s refuge. From the day they met by chance onwards, Lal has visited him again time after time, reason after reason, for carnal desires and bodily passions that he has for him, and for the compassion that he shows Lal—shows Lal’s male self.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Amazon

Nachanok Ladys

Nachanok Ladys debuted as a writer with her first work, Beau is Non-Binary of Everything, back in 2021.

She is a non-binary (she/he/they) who believes that the existence of LGBTQIAN+ in literary works is to declare to the world: I exist.

In the beginning, she was a freelance writer who sometimes worked with publishing houses (e.g. Ms. Kent and Me with Salmon Books). She often publishes her works (because she needs to make a living). She now has more than ten published works, and all her protagonists—Sapphic, Achillean, transgender, and other various genders included—speak for her with the same sentence: I exist.

She’s a co-founder of Ladys and Moonscape publishing house, and lives in Phetchaburi, Thailand—a province with delicious food, beaches, and mountain ranges. She can be found on Twitter and on Instagram under the same handle as @TheoryofLady.