Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

16 reviews

saracatalyst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book is incredible. I learned so much about the history of Vietnam and her family. I also learned and reflected a lot about what family means and what’s meaningful in life. 

The illustrations are incredible and the mix of images and text for storytelling is masterful. I will absolutely read this again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, War, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

nonfictionfeminist's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Miscarriage, and War

530lee's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, and Child death

f18's review

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

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is the first time I've read a graphic memoir. It's an interesting format - the watercolour images give everything a kind of dreamy memory-like quality which is especially interesting in the parts that the author experienced as a small child. It's a story about Vietnam, but also about parents and children and what we pass down, both on purpose and without meaning to. It can be a heavy read, but I enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Xenophobia, and Torture

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

icfasntw's review

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Miscarriage, and Medical content

Minor: Rape, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia

This is a graphic novelization of the author's family story, which includes her parents' lives in Vietnam from the 1940s and 50s through their escape to the United States after the Vietnam War. Thi Bui doesn't sensationalize their story, but she presents it honestly, and it isn't an easy one.