Join the University Library for a live webinar with Thi Bui, author of the 2021 Cal State LA One Campus One Book selection, The Best We Could Do. Bui will discuss her acclaimed book and its themes of family, colonialism and imperialism, and the refugee experience. A Q&A session with the Cal State LA community will follow.

Thi Bui is a Vietnamese American cartoonist and author. Her work seeks to make sense of the stories that history leaves behind. Bui’s debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do, is the story of her family in the years before, during, and after the Vietnam War. It was selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, and was an Eisner Award finalist. Her memoir was included in Bill Gates’ Top 5 Books of 2017, and was called, “A book to break your heart and heal it,” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen.

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