Reminiscence is a historical/multicultural novel inspired by actual events and based on the true story of a Filipina nurse who lost her father in the Vietnam War before she was born. While growing up, she dreams of meeting her father and becoming a nurse someday so she could come to America and live there with her mother for good. In her adolescence, she stops dreaming of finding her father. She becomes a nurse and comes to America and works in a nursing home in Raleigh where she meets and gets romantically involved with the grandson of a resident. Their romance unexpectedly leads the way to her finding her father, alive and well, and living in a suburb close to the nursing home with another family

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