![]() ![]() We learn a sweeping, terrible history - the French occupation, the war, the stark division of the country, the rising power of the Communists, the brutality of the regime, the dangerous exodus of citizens - but always she brings it back to an intimate level. Bui is the narrator and only occasionally a character in the book, which focuses on her parents - their upbringing in Vietnam, their escape to the United States, their difficult life here. “Family is now something I have created.”Īnd family - complicated, difficult, sometimes tragic family - is at the heart of this intense and moving memoir. Thi Bui’s graphic novel about her family’s exodus from Vietnam begins in New York, where she is giving birth to her son - a tiny, jaundiced mite who has a “faraway face with old man eyes.” Over the next few days, as she struggles to breast-feed and care for the newborn, “a terrifying thought creeps into my head,” Bui writes. ![]()
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