by Kor Vithan
The Long Debt is a Bangkok Gothic horror novel about inheritance, language, and a secret her family kept buried. Sirikarn is a speech therapist who believes in structure, procedure, and the discipline of listening. Then a seven-year-old patient speaks in a language she cannot identify. Days before her grandmother’s death anniversary, Sirikarn inherits a locked ledger written in old Teochew script and a bracelet her grandmother never removed. Soon, the ordinary world begins to change. A voicemail shifts in her ear. Unreadable pages become briefly clear. One word keeps rising through the noise: Debt. What waits inside her family’s past, something far beyond her common understanding, and it has finally reached her.
