In 2017, lawyer Hanna Bui, who had been living and working in Silicon Valley for 20 years, sought a change of pace from suburbia. Her son was off to college, and she longed to live close to water.
“I love to water-ski. I love the water. Water makes me happy,” Hanna says. The setting brings up some harder feelings as well, related to struggles of her childhood. In 1979, her family made a harrowing escape from Vietnam. They fled in a boat that took them—stripped by pirates of their belongings—to a coastal village in Thailand, where, for a short while, before the
