The Best We Could Do

THE BEST WE COULD DO is a poignant graphic novel & memoir by Thi Bui, tracing her family's escape from war-torn Vietnam, their new life as American immigrants, & the effect of both of these experiences on her identity as a first-time mother.

The writing is beautiful & hits you right in the gut:

”Being my father's child, I, too, was a product of war. And being my mother's child, I could never measure up to her.”

gorgeous

”But maybe being their child simply means that I will always feel the weight of their past.”