It took a long time to learn the right questions to ask.” “To understand how my father became the way he was, I had to learn what happened to him as a little boy.
“For my parents, already fully formed in another time and place to which they could never go back, home became the holding pen for the frustrations and unexorcised demons that had nowhere to go in America’s Finest City… In the dark apartment in San Diego, I grew up with the terrified boy who became my father.” It is an engaging story presented in the style of a graphic novel. Based largely on oral history from family members, she has written and illustrated their story, telling the history of Vietnam from 1943-1978 along the way. Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a child in 1978. The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
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