The best we could do : an illustrated memoir / Thi Bui.
- Bui, Thi
- Date:
- 2017
- Books
About this work
Description
"Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves"-- Publisher description.
Publication/Creation
New York : Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of ABRAMS, 2017.
Physical description
327 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Contributors
Awards note
Booklist Editor's Choice/Adult Books for Young Adults 2017; Nominations: National Book Critics Circle: Bio/Autobio Finalist 2017
American Book Award, 2018.
Contents
Labor -- Rewind, reverse -- Home, the holding pen -- Blood and rice -- Either, or -- The chessboard -- Heroes and losers -- The shore -- Fire and ash -- Ebb and flow.
Type/Technique
Languages
Subjects
- RefugeesUnited StatesBiographyComic books, strips, etc
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975Personal narrativesComic books, strips, etc
- Asian AmericansHistoryComic books, strips, etc
- Vietnamese AmericansComic books, strips, etc
- MedicineComic books, strips, etc
- Mother and child
- Asian Peoplehistory
- Asianhistory
- Mother-Child Relations
- Vietnam Conflict
- Refugees
- Bui, Thi
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineEH.ALOpen shelves
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781419718779
- 1419718770