The Best We Could Do

by

Thi Bui

Kuala Lumpur Term Analysis

Malaysia’s capital and largest city, where Thi and her family goes for their medical checkups and flight to the United States. Bố is briefly stuck here, since his medical tests show scars from his tuberculosis decades before.
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Kuala Lumpur Term Timeline in The Best We Could Do

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Chapter 8: The Shore
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...buy plane tickets with the help of the Red Cross. The family gets checkups in Kuala Lumpur , but Bố’s shows a lung problem related to his old tuberculosis, so he has... (full context)