The best we could do : an illustrated memoir / Thi Bui.
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Details
- Description
- 327 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Graphic novels lcgft
- 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.
- Summary
- "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.
- Awards
- Booklist Editor's Choice/Adult Books for Young Adults 2017; Nominations: National Book Critics Circle: Bio/Autobio Finalist 2017
- American Book Award, 2018.
- Note
- "National Book Critics Circle Award finalist"--Cover.
- Subject
- Bui, Thi -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Refugees -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Asian Americans -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Vietnamese Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mother and child.
- Cartoons and comics.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Asian -- history
- Asian -- history
- Mother-Child Relations
- Vietnam Conflict
- Refugees
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
- COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Nonfiction.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
- Bui, Thi.
- Medicine.
- Asian Americans.
- Refugees.
- Vietnamese Americans.
- United States.
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Chronological Term
- 1961-1975
- Genre/Form
- Graphic novels.
- Graphic novels.
- Autobiography
- Graphic Novel
- Personal Narrative
- Popular Work
- Biographical comics.
- Autobiographical comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- History.
- Nonfiction comics.
- Graphic novels.
- Graphic novels.
- Biographical comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bui, Thi. Best we could do (OCoLC)1225612553
- ISBN
- 9781419718779 (hardcover)
- 1419718770 (hardcover)
- 9781419718786 (paperback)
- 1419718789 (paperback)