Table for One is a non-fiction memoir about Tristan, a multi-racial woman born towards the end of the Vietnam War, abandoned by her mother and sent to live in an orphanage run by nuns with her baby brother. Adopted by foreigners, she and her brother escape Vietnam and come to a quaint New England town with the hope for a better life. Her parents provided a storybook childhood, complete with prep school and a pony, until her father unexpectedly collapsed from a stroke and fell victim to cancer. The death of her father caused feelings of abandonment to resurface.