Watch Thi Bui read an excerpt from her illustrated memoir The Best We Can Do with the help of some audience members.

‘In my sleep, I dreamt of how terrible it would be to not find my way home.’

I see my forebears, warriors in retirement, laboring in endless fields, bustling markets, and desolate seas. One by one they all stop, turn to me, and say: “If you have good hands, anything can happen.”