Thira sat next to the taxi driver in the Uber they had booked for the trip. “We are almost there,” she said. They had been on the road for the past one hour and thirty minutes, and they were finally arriving at the affluent scenery of Montgomery County—the same county where she had been told her mother was born and had grown up. She took in deep breaths as she tried to re-invoke little clips of childhood memories she had of the place. Though she had never gotten to see her mother in real ...