Thao's Story Author:Doug Wright It is the week before Memorial Day, 2004. Alone in her Manhattan apartment, 34 year old Thao, known as Susan Nguyen at the medical center where she works, once again hears her mother's words...the one who comes for you will be your father. And so, this young woman's tale begins at a time when presidential politics, America's war on terror and t... more »he 30 year old Vietnam conflict are in the headlines. As she prepares for the final phase of her life long quest to identify her father, either a billionaire capitalist or a misguided wreck of a soul, she learns her Afghan boyfriend, once a refugee like herself, is a terrorist suspect and in the sights of the FBI. In his fast paced first novel, Doug Wright takes us into the mind of a mysterious young Amerasian woman determined to fill in the holes of her past and to honor her mother's wishes.« less