An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam from debut author Thi Bui.
This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves.
At the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home.
In what Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “a book to break your heart and heal it,” The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui’s journey of understanding, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past.
##2021.11.20 讀的時候好幾次都眼眶濕潤。本質上探討的是如何做孩子、做父母、如何麵對自己的生命和與他人的聯結這樣的問題。而越南曆史的部分讓人心碎,然而我們的曆史中又有那麼多相似的地方。
評分##被大曆史裹挾的傢庭史和個人史。戰爭就像是書裏爸爸的grandmother患上的肺結核,或多或少或淺或深地在爸爸的肺上刻下陰影,戰爭也是棋盤對決,隻是我們每個人無力渺小到甚至算不上棋盤上的一兵一卒,隻能被拍打和揉捏,被塑造成現在的樣子。開篇新生兒的齣生,使作者開始瞭解並重構越戰史及其父母的成長史,他們的顛沛流離、悲歡離閤和掙紮求生,直至理解父母執拗的性格,並體會傢庭的意義,這個時候,總在聲稱沒有準備好的作者,纔是真正地成為瞭一個"grown—up"。最後的最後,新生兒長成瞭自由獨立的十歲男孩,沒有戰爭與缺失,甚至沒有父親或母親的影子,我想這也許就是父母struggle的理由,以及作者尋求的答案瞭,也沒有什麼比這更好的瞭。
評分##This book bears an important subject matter and has very beautiful illustrations chronicling the author's family during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War as well as the sacrifices they have made in order to start a new life in another country. However, the problem of this book for me lays with the format, which is limiting and confusing.
評分##一開始因為時間綫亂跳覺得有點亂,之後重大曆史事件作用於個人及傢庭命運時就有沉重的感受瞭:二戰、土地改革、越南戰爭、北越政權建立等等,其實事件都是熟悉的,苦難也是早有預料的,隻是位置不同感受更加復雜。另外越南與朝鮮半島有某種類似的軌跡,更加覺得人的相同而非不同。
評分##Beautiful
評分##不是二代移民典型的身份認同作品。首一整章寫新生,messy而艱難。中間大部分是父母在越南的傢國曆史。在越南螻蟻求生,至齣走美國,隱約並置的是一條“重生”産道。末章落腳於生老病死,點題的“盡力而為”(存活),是為父母的信條,亦是“幸存者”移民二代真正的文化遺産,刻在血肉裏的處世之道
評分##對 refugee 問題有瞭新認識。原來越南人到美加法的故事是這樣的。真·boat ppl
評分第一次被非母語的作品深深打動。一部越南移民的血淚史,事關救贖與存亡的傢族史,女性的個人迴憶錄。讓人不停心碎,又不斷治愈著人心。武漢大學齣版社鹿書計劃於今年齣版,我一定要譯好它。
評分##目前讀過最好的graphic novel,從成為母親重走自己母親的道路並切身地理解傢庭的含義開始,迴溯自己作為refugee的過往並試圖恢復重構父母的經曆,多視角敘事好評,作為圖像的首尾銜接、結構、漫畫與插畫的混閤運用也經得起推敲,言辭精妙。母親曾經優越而極為不易的為一傢人營生,父親看起來確實廢柴,年輕的時候倒也是一番智勇。更多是在說我們這群boat people的過往如何塑造瞭現在,關注在一個傢庭的變遷史之內,對於越南美國人的集體記憶刻畫不多。最後說迴越南語的時刻印象最深。
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