Acclaimed author and co-editor Thi Bui and artist Sam Nga Blum discuss the evolution of Vietnamese diaspora identity with journalist Serena Puang. Using Bui’s memoir, The Best We Could Do, as a touchstone for remembering the refugee experience, they will explore how contemporary writers and artists—as seen in the experimental and wide-ranging McSweeney's 78: The Make Believers—are now actively reimagining and creating a new, eclectic cultural language for what it means to be becoming Vietnamese in the world today.

At this event Vu Tran and Thi Bui—co-editors of a special issue of McSweeney’s magazine featuring work from writers and artists in the Vietnamese diaspora—will be joined by fellow contributor Isabelle Pelaud for a reading and celebration of the issue’s publication on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. As part of the “New Directions in Contemporary Literary Publishing” initiative organized by the Neubauer Collegium Arts Labs research project, the event will also include a roundtable discussion on the issue’s innovative art design, its thematic engagement with the Vietnamese diasporic experience, and the unique art residency in France that inspired the issue and brought together all the featured writers and artists.

The Center for Asian American Studies, American Studies, Department of English and New Writers Project welcome Thi Bui for a reading and book signing.

In this presentation, artist Thi Bui discusses her powerful, award-winning graphic novel, The Best We Could Do, which chronicles the anguish of immigration during her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s.

The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University brings the world’s leading authors to the university’s uptown campus for a multi-day celebration for book lovers of all ages. Viet Thanh Nguyen will be speaking about his work with Thi Bui on Saturday, March 16th.

Our NEA Big Read author Thi Bui will lead a master class on using the graphic novel form as a structure for memoir and a device for familial healing.

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet our NEA Big Read author Thi Bui.

The Los Angeles Public Library is proud to present Thi Bui, author of this year's Big Read book, The Best We Could Do. She will be in conversation with children's book illustrator and writer LeUyen Pham.

Kalamazoo Public Library is pleased to announce its Reading Together 2022 title, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by award-winning author and cartoonist Thi Bui. Meet the author virtually on KPL’s live streaming event site, KPL Live.

Welcome to our Keynote address by Thi Bui, author of the award winning graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do, sponsored, in part, by the award from the NEA Big Read.

In commemoration of the 46th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Quế Mai, author of The Mountains Sing, and Thi Bui, 2018 Caldecott Honor winner and Eisner Award finalist for her illustrated memoir, The Best We Could Do, will join in a special conversation with Philip Nguyen, President of the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA).