The Best We Can Do - Interactive Reading with Thi Bui

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Watch Thi Bui read an excerpt from her illustrated memoir THE BEST WE CAN DO with the help of some audience members.
Recorded from our event "Visualizing Vietnam with Thi Bui, An-My Lê, and Anne Ishii."
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[@ThuongTran-zz9hp]

I love Thi Bui's comic book so much. I really look forward to exceptional writers like Thi Bui and Nguyen Viet Thanh, who share many true stories about Vietnam and the war. I'm a student in Saigon n always try to make it to the America by studying. 'The Best We Could Do' by Thi Bui inspired me and helped visualise much more the context of the Vietnam war. From that, I could see the war from her point of view as well from the south vietnamese people, but not from textbook written by "them". Nowadays, I can self-answer many questions: why have my neighbors left this country to America for many years? Why girls keep finding the American to get married to escape ASAP? How hard I need to push myself learn to open my eyes and to get through this impending-depression of my country? Hopefully something brighter will happen to one day in Vietnam.

[@linhngoc9886]

I love u Thi Bui. I love Vietnam

[@SprinklesxMoon]

Same :>

[@an_odd_one5184]

Welcome to nam

[@zheli655]

顺利成为🇺🇸🐶

[@tiandude]

The Best We CAN Do. Lol