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BookDragon Best We Could Do Tag

Core Collection: Refugee Stories [in Booklist]

06 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Arab, British, Cuban, Cuban American, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Iranian, Iraqi, Italian, Jewish, Lists, Memoir, Middle Eastern, Nonfiction, Repost, Syrian, Translation, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, Young Adult Readers

More than 65 million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, have been forced to leave their homes. Whether they are made refugees in another country or displaced internally, 2017 UN data shows that “nearly 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute as a...

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui + Author Interview [in Bloom]

13 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, Young Adult Readers

Q&A with Thi Bui: Writer, Illustrator, Teacher On the cover of Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir is a perfect quote: “A book to break our heart and heal it,” blurbs fellow Vietnamese American refugee and 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction...

Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with 12 New Titles [in The Booklist Reader]

10 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Cambodian, Cambodian American, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Japanese American, Korean, Korean American, Lists, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American

While Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas, notable scholars and historians have argued that Chinese explorers traveled around the world in the early 15th century and created a surviving map that shows America on its route. Imagine if those ancient explorers had stayed. The history of Asians...

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