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

Banyan Moon

by Thao Thai - Fiction, Women's Fiction

This sweeping, evocative debut novel follows three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets and unlikely love stories.