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The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

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Huge congratulations to all those honored by the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature!

#Finding Papa #The Truth About Dragons #Ruby Lost and Found #Parachute Kids #I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom #In Limbo #full disclosure I was NOT conscious enough to watch this bit live #so all of my HOLLERING was BELATED #Deb JJ Lee #CHRISTINA LI #Shannon CF Rogers #Betty C. Tang #Angela Pham Krans #Thi Bui #Julie Leung #Hanna Cha #very excited for all these excellent humans #Asian/Pacific American Awards for LIterature #ALA Youth Media Awards

The Best We Could Do / Thi Bui

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Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do absolutely broke me. I was weeping openly through most of the last chapter. And the illustration is simultaneously beautiful and intricately woven into the storytelling.

Read this for the 2023 Fold Challenge March prompt and I'm so glad I did.

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I used to imagine that history had infused my parents' lives with the dust of a cataclysmic explosion. That it had seeped through their skin and become part of their blood. That being my father's child, I, too, was a product of war, and being my mother's child, could never measure up to her. But maybe being their child simply means that I will always feel the weight of their past. Nothing that happened makes me special. But my life is a gift that is too great--a debt I can never repay.

Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

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