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The best we could do an illustrated memoir

The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bui, Thi (Author, Artist)
Format:	Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Abrams Comicarts, 2017.
Subjects:	Bui, Thi > Comic books, strips, etc. Vietnamese Americans > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc. Refugees > United States > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives, Vietnamese > Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels. Biographical comics. Comics (Graphic works)
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Summary:	The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
Item Description:	Chiefly illustrations.
Physical Description:	327 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9781419718779 1419718770
Author Notes:	Thi Bui was born in Vi?t Nam three months before the end of the American War and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the "boat people" wave of refugees from Southeast Asia. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017), was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in autobiography and an Eisner Award finalist in Reality-Based Work and has become a widely taught work of graphic nonfiction. Bui is also the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of A Different Pond , a picture book by poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Her short comics have appeared in The Nib, Reveal News, PEN America, and BOOM California. Bui taught high school in New York City and was a founding teacher of Oakland International High School, the first public high school in California for recent immigrants and English learners. She is a faculty member of the MFA in Comics program at California College of the Arts. Bui lives in the Bay Area.