“The Best We Could Do” is a personal story spanning Bui’s family’s refugee journey from war-torn Vietnam to the U.S., her ensuing childhood in California, and up through present-day motherhood to her Vietnamese-American son. WOOSTER, Ohio – Immigration, identity, and the importance of graphic storytelling were among the topics Thi Bui hit on as she presented the 2019 Peter Mortensen Lecture Tuesday night to an attentive audience of students, faculty, staff, and community members inside McGaw Chapel at The College of Wooster.īui discussed her award-winning illustrated memoir “The Best We Could Do,” the summer reading for new Wooster students as part of the first-year seminar program, by answering questions from moderators Alicia Brazeau, director of the writing center, Ivonne Garcia, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, and sophomore Rondell MacKey. Thi Bui Provides Further Insight on “The Best We Could Do” to Wooster Community
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