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[chineseladybug]

Mi Nina Bonita, you know where your name comes from? You ever hear of Chino y Nacho? No, I say. You need to read more. They’re famous. Everybody knows #ChinoYNacho. They sing #reggaeton. You’ll like it. I send to you manana. The next day I receive a link to a music video by Chino y Nacho called, #MiNinaBonita Mi Madre became an iPad addict pretty quick. Searching YouTube videos of her favorite musicians like Whitney Houston, John Denver, Celine Dion, and her latest discovery, Chino y Nacho. She used to write me letters on looseleaf filled with Spanish proverbs like “las paredes oyen” which means the walls have ears. It was when she thought I should be more discreet about my affairs. Another was “no hay rosa sin espinas” which translates to there exists no rose without thorns. It’s when she wanted me to understand that all happiness comes with some pain, not everything in life was going to be perfect. Today, she sends me her messages through #YouTube songs. Like Chino y Nacho’s song, “Mi Nina Bonita.” It was to tell me where my new name came from. Part 3 of Mi Madre up at #muthamagazine https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQ5F0CuDc3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thibui]

Fall Book Talks

Hi everyone, here are my public appearances for September and October! And then I’m going back into submarine mode for a bit.

Decatur Book Festival, Georgia, Saturday 9/2 - 11am panel: The Human Impact of the Vietnam War, with Paisley Rekdal, Thi Bui, and Bee Nguyen

Coffee and Conversation with Thi Bui, Sunday 9/3, 10:30am, AKQA Atlanta, GA (signing The Best We Could Do)

Marin Comics Fest, Wednesday 9/13, 6:00pm at San Rafael Library

In Conversation with Lauren Markham, author of The FARAWAY BROTHERS, launching that evening at Books Inc, Berkeley! Thursday 9/14, 7pm

Brooklyn Book Festival, NY Friday 9/15, 7pm at Powerhouse Arena - Mama Takes the Mic: Magic and Madness from Storytellers at MUTHA & HIP MAMA MAGAZINE, with Ariel Gore, Aya de Leon, Elisa Albert, Katherine Arnoldi, Thi Bui, and Samantha Barrow

Sunday 9/17, 12pm at Brooklyn Historical Auditorium - Mothers and Other Monster Myths, with Gabrielle Bell, Thi Bui, Julia Alekseyeva, and Ariel Gore

Monday 9/18, 4pm at Adelphi University, NY with Jonathan W. Gray

Wednesday 9/20, 7pm at Babson College, MA

Thursday 9/21, 7:30pm at Massachusetts College of Art

Sunday 9/24, 2pm at Eastwind Books, Berkeley, CA (signing The Best We Could Do and A Different Pond)

Saturday 9/30, 4:40pm at UC Berkeley Asian Pacific Islander Issues Conference

Friday 10/6, 10am on KQED Forum with Mina Kim

Wednesday 10/11 7pm, Litquake reading in Oakland with Tomas Moniz, Innosanto Nagara, Miriam Stahl and Robert Liu-Trujillo

Saturday 10/14, 12:30pm at Life is Living Festival, Oakland, CA with Laurin Mayeno, Melissa Reyes, Grace Carroll, Robert Liu-Trujillo and more. (I’ll be reading from and signing A Different Pond.)

Saturday 10/14 5pm, Litquake reading in San Francisco with Viet diasporic collective, She Who Has No Master(s): Angie Chau, Aimee Phan, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, and Julie Thi Underhill

Saturday 10/28 evening, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival: Read to Me (live reading with cartoonists from the Comic Art Workshop), Indonesia

[glynnisfawkes]

New Book: Reign of Crumbs

I'm excited to announce a new book: Reign of Crumbs, published by Kilgore Books.  You can read and hear all about it on the Kilgore Kickstarter, along with the other books in Kilgore's Spring line-up.  Supporting the Kickstarter will help get all these books published--don't wait! 

Reign of Crumbs is 76 pages of brush pen drawings about my family over the course of year's worth of kids' antics and bedtime conversations.  Several of these cartoons have appeared on Muthamagazine.com

[chineseladybug]

Part 2 of Mi Madre #comic is up at #MuthaMagazine. I have so many fond memories of my mother growing up. From plucking roses from neighbor’s gardens to spiritual rose baths to going to Botanicas to refresh her shrine to watching her feverishly trying to scratch Lucky Scratch Offs so we could live the dream. Check it out!! #motherlove #missher https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckmh_9hO0Pj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chineseladybug]

My latest comic about my grandmother is up at #muthamagazine I hope it makes you want to go out and buy some #tigerbalm #comics #illustration #badassgrandma #footbinding #squirrelskeepyouwarminwinter Many thanks to Meg for sharing my storytelling. Link in bio

[chineseladybug]

My comic about the baby blues just published at #muthamagazine thank you @meglemke for reinvigorating my love for storytelling #comics #illustrations #motherhood #ppd #postpartum