The Author[Source: Amazon]
Patrick Maher (born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1965) is an American writer. Maher's first novel, Candid Confessions, reached No. 1 on Amazon Japan's best seller list and was the third best selling foreign literary novel with Amazon.com Japan in 2001. Maher was trapped in the 2011 Thailand Floods and spoke about his experience with the Christian Science Monitor. Based on his family adventure of surviving the floodwater, the idea of Pleng's Song was born. |
The Background Story[Source: Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency]
In 2011, Thailand witnessed its worst flooding in half a century, leaving severe impairments to the country’s economy, industrial sector, and society. Factors that contributed to flood crisis range from natural to manmade. Consequently, floodwaters inundated 90 billion square kilometers of land, more than two-thirds of the country, ranking the natural disaster as the world’s fourth costliest disaster as of 2011. |