麻豆传媒

Thi Bui

麻豆传媒 at Stark presents Thi Bui, author of award winning graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do.

Meet the Author Thi Bui
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Conference Center
麻豆传媒 at Stark

Books will be available for purchase. A Q&A and book signing will follow the presentation.


FREE EVENT - PLEASE REGISTER

The event is free and tickets are not required, but please register to let us know you're coming!

 
To request disability accommodations, email starkevents@kent.edu. 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the 鈥渂oat people鈥 wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics. It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates鈥 top five picks.

She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor. With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children鈥檚 book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney鈥檚, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at , , and .

She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.


THE BIG READ

麻豆传媒 at Stark presents Thi Bui as part of the and , with community partners , and . Additional support provided by 麻豆传媒's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and DEAR Committee.


ADDITIONAL BIG READ EVENTS

Date Time Location Event
Friday, Sept. 1 2:30 - 4 p.m. Stark Library -
East Canton Branch
Writers' Workshop
Discussion: The Best
We Could Do
Tuesday, Sept. 5 6 p.m. Stark Library -
Main Library
Read Around the World
Book Club Discussion: 
The Best We Could Do
Tuesday, Sept. 12 6 p.m. McKinley Presidential
Library & Museum
History-based Discussion:
The Best We Could Do
Wednesday, Sept. 13 1:30 p.m. McKinley Presidential 
Library & Museum
History-based Discussion:
The Best We Could Do
Thursday, Sept. 14 4 p.m. Kent State Twinsburg
Academic Center
Book Discussion: 
The Best We Could Do
Tuesday, Sept. 19 6 p.m. Canal Fulton Public Library Book Club Discussion:
The Best We Could Do
Thursday, Sept. 21 11 a.m. Kent Free Library
Bumphrey Room
Book Discussion: 
The Best We Could Do
Thursday, Sept. 21 1:30 p.m. North Canton Public
Library
Senior Group Book Club
Discussion: The Best We
Could Do
Wednesday, Oct. 4 3 - 4 p.m.     Kent State Stark Library Book Discussion: A
History of Banned & Challenged Books from
World War II through
the 21st Century
Wednesday, Oct. 24 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Kent State Stark Main
Hall Conference Room 1
Book Discussion: Unsayable: Expressions
of Lived Experiences in Graphic Novels