Kalamazoo Public Library’s 2022 Reading Together title is The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui.

Several events are scheduled, starting Saturday, February 12, on KPL Live and on Zoom. The author will speak at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 on KPL Live. This event is free and open to the public.

This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves.

You can get The Best We Could Do on our shelves, or through the Kalamazoo Public Library or MeLCat if the K College Library copy is checked out.

About Reading Together

The purpose of Reading Together is to build a stronger community with deeper connections through the common experience of reading the same book and exploring its themes together. When we do that, we engage and learn, not only about ourselves, but more importantly about each other and the world around us.

By experiencing the same book, hearing the author of that work speak right here in Kalamazoo, and examining the book’s themes through a local lens, we are able to embrace our similarities and differences from a common point of reference.

Very simply, when we read together, we grow together.