The Best We Could Do

Zusatztext "The Best We Could Do has been compared to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis for its heart-wrenchingly honest! sometimes humorous! and deeply personal account of what it means to rescue life from the debris of loss." Informationen zum Autor 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), has been selected as UCLA's Common Book for 2017, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, an Eisner Award finalist in Reality-Based Work, and made several best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates's top five picks. Bui is also the Caldecott Honorwinning illustrator of A Different Pond, a picture book by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Her short comics can be found online at 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. Since 2015, she has been a faculty member of the MFA in Comics program at the California College of the Arts. Bui lives in the Bay Area. Klappentext An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Bui. "A book to break your heart and heal it."--Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelistelist Zusammenfassung Now in paperback, Thi Sui's intimate and moving portrait of her family's journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America

Auteur

Thi Bui was born in Việt 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), has been selected as UCLA’s Common Book for 2017, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, an Eisner Award finalist in Reality-Based Work, and made several “best of 2017” book lists, including Bill Gates’s top five picks. Bui is also the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator of A Different Pond, a picture book by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Her short comics can be found online at 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. Since 2015, she has been a faculty member of the MFA in Comics program at the California College of the Arts. Bui lives in the Bay Area.

Texte du rabat

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Bui. "A book to break your heart and heal it."--Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelistelist

Résumé
Now in paperback, Thi Sui's intimate and moving portrait of her family's journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America