Thi Bui, author of The Best We Could Do, at Manhattan Beach Library.

As part of this year’s    Beach Cities Reads,    meet Thi Bui as she    shares her intimateillustrated memoirportraying her family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to California. 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. This is a ticketed event. RSVP online at www.pagesabookstore.com