Disrupted Podcast: Bestselling cartoonist Thi Bui reflects on leaving Vietnam as a child
April 30th marked 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. The war looms large in U.S. culture— it’s been the subject of countless books and movies.
These works have often focused on American soldiers, but not so much on the experiences of everyday Vietnamese people living through the war.
Artist Thi Bui’s 2017 bestselling graphic memoir The Best We Could Do started as an attempt to change that. It tells her family’s story of living through the war and ultimately leaving her birth country to come to the United States.