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Thao Thai

Biography

Thao Thai

Thao Thai is the author of BANYAN MOON, the July 2023 "Read with Jenna" title, Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, and Book of the Month selection. BANYAN MOON was also selected by booksellers as an Indie Next pick and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. A recipient of the 2024 Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Excellence Award, her work has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, WIRED, Elle, Lit Hub and other publications. She lives in central Ohio with her husband and daughter.

Books by Thao Thai

by Thao Thai - Fiction, Women's Fiction

When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life, but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. Now she returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng. Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together.