Thi Bui was born on 1975 and is a Vietnam-born American graphic novelist and illustrator.
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Thi Bui's is most known for her illustrated memoir The Best We Could Do.
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Thi Bui was born in what was then Saigon, Vietnam three months prior to the Fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War.
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Thi Bui's is one of six children; two of her older siblings passed away prior to her birth.
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Thi Bui's was one of the founders of Oakland International High School in Oakland, California, the first public high school in California for recent immigrants and English learners.
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In 2017, Thi Bui published her first graphic novel The Best We Could Do chronicling the life of her refugee parents and siblings, their life in Vietnam prior to their escape after the Vietnam War and their eventual migration to the United States.
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Thi Bui's worked on the book as an illustrator and collaborated with spoken word artist and writer Bao Phi for the project.
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Nguyen and Thi Bui collaborated with their sons to create the story with Nguyen and his son Ellison as writers and Thi Bui and her son Hien as illustrators.
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Thi Bui's is working on a science fiction story about climate change in Vietnam and in poorer countries.
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