![]() She grows up in California with her dedicated, hardworking mother, her disconnected, traumatized father, her two older sisters Lan and Bích, and her younger brother and closest peer, Tâm. Born in Sài Gòn only “three months before South Việt Nam lost the war” to the North, Thi Bui flees Việt Nam with her family and moves to the United States at the age of three. She hopes that undertaking this project will help her “learn to love better,” prepare her to communicate her family’s history to her own son, make sense of differences between Vietnamese and American cultural expectations, and understand the history and tragedy of the country where she was born. ![]() The author, illustrator, and central protagonist of The Best We Could Do is a Vietnamese American writer and artist who sets out to uncover her family’s roots and trace their history in Việt Nam. ![]()
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