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Thi and Travis’s Son
Má and Bố’s first daughter (besides Quyên, who dies in infancy), and Thi Bui’s eldest sister. Born in 1966 in the Mekong Delta when Má is 22, Lan remembers much about her childhood in Sài Gòn, and she is 12 when the family flees to Malaysia and moves to the United States. When she arrives in America with her family, she initially has trouble assimilating, but later becomes a high-achiever and goes off to college while Thi is young. In adulthood, she ends up living two blocks down from the rest of the family in California, with her husband and daughter.
Lan Quotes in The Best We Could Do
The The Best We Could Do quotes below are all either spoken by Lan or refer to Lan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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We were now BOAT PEOPLE—
—five among hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into neighboring countries, seeking asylum.
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Lan Quotes in The Best We Could Do
The The Best We Could Do quotes below are all either spoken by Lan or refer to Lan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 8
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We were now BOAT PEOPLE—
—five among hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into neighboring countries, seeking asylum.
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