Journalist and first-time author Floodâ€™s powerful memoir of her life with a dysfunctional mother and her decades-long search for her biological father is a gripping story of self-doubt and

The Unquiet Daughter

Journalist and first-time author Floodâ€™s powerful memoir of her life with a dysfunctional mother and her decades-long search for her biological father is a gripping story of self-doubt and self-discovery. Floodâ€™s parents may seem familiar to readers- a Vietnamese woman, pregnant with a British officerâ€™s baby, who marries an American foreign officer - since their lives were the basis for the main characters in Graham Greeneâ€™s novel â€œThe Quiet American.â€ For Flood, this book is the sequel Greene never wrote, and her story has some compelling moments of its own. After the family moves to America, Floodâ€™s stepfather mysteriously leaves her with her mother, who thrives on mental fireworks, begins a career as a burlesque dancer, has numerous affairs, and often leaves the young Flood to fend for herself in a variety of schools in New York City. Flood finds peace of mind while searching for answers about what her mother â€œdid and did not do and what she did and did not tell me.â€ Floodâ€™s descriptions of her early life are truly heartbreaking: teenage years spent working her way through high school, being abandoned by her mother, and realizing that â€œto try and understand why Mom had done so many things was pointless. â€œ -Publisherâ€™s Weekly

The Unquiet Daughter