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우리가 했던 최선의 선택 : 그림으로 그린 베트남 회고록 by Thi Bui

6 reviews

thejazziestbean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

this book was very informative and it gave a huge insight into how an immigrant child’s life is affected by the government of their nations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Racism, Police brutality, War, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, Murder, Xenophobia, Violence, Hate crime, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Colonisation, Gore, Vomit, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Abortion, Mass/school shootings, Infidelity, Child death, and Classism

rieviolet's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

I'll preface this review by saying that it's only recently that I've started reading graphic novels, so I'm still getting used to this particular mode of narration. The book deals with very heavy and interesting themes (the impact of war on a national and personal level, displacement, intergenerational trauma etc.) but I feel like the brevity inherent to the graphic novel mode did them a disservice and there wasn't enough narrative space to develop them. I also admit that I know just the bare minimum about the war in Vietnam and its aftermath, and that a deeper knowledge on my part would have helped me to follow better and to integrate the author's storytelling.

I have to be honest and say that I wasn't really into the graphic and colouring style, and it took me some time to get used to it. I found it perfectly funtional when it came to telling the story, but I wasn't blown away. 

This graphic novel is still a solid work, it just didn't fully meet the high  

expectations I had built for myself after hearing all the reviews of praise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Medical content, War, and Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Child death, Child abuse, Grief, Racism, and Death

Minor: Mental illness, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Fire/Fire injury

bmw2024's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, War, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Gun violence, and Death

okdupuy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.5

i think it would have been more interesting if she focused on herself instead of her parents so much 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Grief, Colonisation, Death, Police brutality, War, Gore, and Infidelity

nukie19's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Grief, Miscarriage, Death, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Child death

f18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Vomit