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Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey (2011)

by GB Tran(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0345508726 (ISBN13: 9780345508720)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Villard

review 1: For this 2nd generation (American born) Vietnamese American, this graphic novel was a beautifully executed punch to the stomach. His exploration of his own family histories just drove home for me the depth of unspoken stories that so many of our grandparents, parents, siblings, and loved ones carry around with them, and underline the importance of drawing these stories out. There are many reasons why I want to eventually do oral histories within my own family, and this book is one of them.
review 2: Amazing book! GB Tran takes the complex histories of his family and reveals the beauty and terror of homeland and war through multilayered graphic storytelling. Some awesome breakouts into family photos and propaganda-style printmaking display GB's prolific artist... morery alongside his frank humility. Vietnamerica also made me wonder at my own family history and what similar things my ancestors faced a century earlier: the Danish-Prussian War, hunger in Ireland, pogroms in Russia/Ukraine, Partition in India/Pakistan—Vietnamerica reminds many of us that our own existence is shaped by many pasts fraught with fateful twists of serendipity. less

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