Graphic Novels and Identity

In her illustrated memoir 'The Best We Could Do', Thi Bui explores her experience as the child of refugees from Vietnam, her family's harrowing escape after the fall of Saigon, her parents' childhoods during years of war and upheaval, and their efforts to raise a family in the United States. Bui, a former public school teacher who spent 12 years writing her book - including learning how to draw comics - explores how history and tradition, love and sacrifice, are at the center of her ideas about identity and home. Listen to Bui describe the journey from refugee to citizen in a moment of travel bands and border walls.