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It follows survivors of the violence of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge who slaughtered millions in the late 1970s they are trying to find some way to live with their histories and, if possible, to find loved ones lost in the revolution.

Her second novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, was published in 2011. Certainty is set in North Borneo (now Malaysia) during the Second World War, a conflict that Thien considers “the dark heart of our century.” She describes the aftermath of war and decolonization, the personal losses that political changes produce, and the emotional dislocation of the experience of migration. Thien’s first novel, Certainty (2006), was named a 2007 Kiriyama Prize finalist.

It was also named a Kiriyama notable book for 2001. Thien received several prizes for the collection: the 2001 Canadian Authors Association/ Air Canada Emerging Writer Award for most promising Canadian writer under age 30, the 2001 City of Vancouver Book Award, the 2002 VanCity Book Prize, and the 2002 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The book focuses on family relationships and conflicts between generations and cultures, foregrounding children’s sense of alienation, confusion and violence, often in the context of broken families. Simple Recipes signalled the appearance of a promising young writer whose empathetic fiction remarkably conveys feelings of loss, loneliness and fragmentation. That same year, she published her first book, Simple Recipes, a collection of short stories derived from her MFA thesis. She studied contemporary dance at Simon Fraser University and completed an MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia of in 2001. Her older brother and sister were born in Malaysia.

Her father is Chinese Malaysian and her mother was originally from Hong Kong. Madeleine Thien was born the same year her parents immigrated to Vancouver from Malaysia.