- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
At the beginning of her book, Thi Bui draws numerous parallels between her mother and herself, usually through her depictions and descriptions of childbirth. However, it takes her a much longer time to find a way to empathize with her father, who has always been more opaque and emotionally distant. But when Bố describes his sense of wonder and freedom upon moving from Hải Phòng to Sài Gòn to continue his education in 1955, Bui realizes that it is just like her sense of “awe and excitement” upon moving to New York to be an artist.
Beyond showing how she…