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Bui, Thi

The Best We Could Do

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Présentation de l'éditeur National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. 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. At the heart of Bui s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home. In what Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls a book to break your heart and heal it, The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui s journey of understanding, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past. Revue de presse 'Thi Bui's debut interweaves an account of her own life in the US with her parents' coming-of-age in, and eventual escape from, Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s. [...] Yet this is not a book without hope. The Best We Can Do shows that empathy trumps hate, fear and cruelty.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Thi Bui's stark, compelling memoir is about an ordinary family, but her story delivers the painful truth that most Vietnamese of the 20th century know in an utterly personal fashion that history is found in the marrow of one s bones, ready to be passed on through blood, through generations, through feelings. A book to break your heart and heal it.'--Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist 'The Best We Could Do burns back the dead skin of public War memory. Underneath is the raw flesh of another kind of war story of mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brutally intimate and intimately brutal. This book is a must-read.' --Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, The Asian American Literary Review, curator for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 'Devastating and luminous' Tom Hart, author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir 'Drawn in black and washed throughout with a rusty red that at once evokes blood ties and stained histories, Bui's memoir is a reflection on parental love and inherited sorrow that which cannot be escaped, and that which can.' ArtReview Asia 'Tackling a wide range of evergreen issues, such as parenthood, immigration and displacement, I'd highly recommend you give this graphic novel a go! 5/5' --Bookspoils blog 'This bold, brutal book is the new calligraphy an exquisite marriage of alphabet and imagery. Each sentence, each scene, and each story breaks down a country, a family, and a father. Then, frame by frame, with artistic vigor and monastic devotion, Thi Bui rebuilds a world in which guilt conquers grief and gratitude becomes not only a guide, but our new Deity. The Best We Could Do teaches us how to say no to fear and yes to truth.' --Fae Myenne Ng, author of Bone, a PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Steer Toward Rock, winner of the American Book Award Quatrième de couverture An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a bett Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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Présentation de l'éditeur National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. 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. At the heart of Bui s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home. In what Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls a book to break your heart and heal it, The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui s journey of understanding, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past. Revue de presse 'Thi Bui's debut interweaves an account of her own life in the US with her parents' coming-of-age in, and eventual escape from, Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s. [...] Yet this is not a book without hope. The Best We Can Do shows that empathy trumps hate, fear and cruelty.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Thi Bui's stark, compelling memoir is about an ordinary family, but her story delivers the painful truth that most Vietnamese of the 20th century know in an utterly personal fashion that history is found in the marrow of one s bones, ready to be passed on through blood, through generations, through feelings. A book to break your heart and heal it.'--Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist 'The Best We Could Do burns back the dead skin of public War memory. Underneath is the raw flesh of another kind of war story of mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brutally intimate and intimately brutal. This book is a must-read.' --Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, The Asian American Literary Review, curator for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 'Devastating and luminous' Tom Hart, author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir 'Drawn in black and washed throughout with a rusty red that at once evokes blood ties and stained histories, Bui's memoir is a reflection on parental love and inherited sorrow that which cannot be escaped, and that which can.' ArtReview Asia 'Tackling a wide range of evergreen issues, such as parenthood, immigration and displacement, I'd highly recommend you give this graphic novel a go! 5/5' --Bookspoils blog 'This bold, brutal book is the new calligraphy an exquisite marriage of alphabet and imagery. Each sentence, each scene, and each story breaks down a country, a family, and a father. Then, frame by frame, with artistic vigor and monastic devotion, Thi Bui rebuilds a world in which guilt conquers grief and gratitude becomes not only a guide, but our new Deity. The Best We Could Do teaches us how to say no to fear and yes to truth.' --Fae Myenne Ng, author of Bone, a PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Steer Toward Rock, winner of the American Book Award Quatrième de couverture An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a bett Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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Titre complet
The Best We Could Do
Auteur
Bui, Thi
Editeur
Abrams
Format
Broché
Publication
04 avril 2018
Pages
344
Taille
23 x 16.8 x 2.9 cm
Poids
797
ISBN-13
9781419718786

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