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Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey

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Vietnamerica: A Family's JourneyA superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family's history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America,

A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica

GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family's history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to forget the past--and to focus on their children's future. It was only in his late twenties that GB began to learn their extraordinary story. When his last surviving grandparents die within months of each other, GB visits Vietnam for the first time and begins to learn the tragic history of his family, and of the homeland they left behind.

In this family saga played out in the shadow of history, GB uncovers the root of his father's remoteness and why his mother had remained in an often fractious marriage; why his grandfather had abandoned his own family to fight for the Viet Cong; why his grandmother had had an affair with a French soldier. GB learns that his parents had taken harrowing flight from Saigon during the final hours of the war not because they thought America was better but because they were afraid of what would happen if they stayed. They entered America--a foreign land they couldn't even imagine--where family connections dissolved and shared history was lost within a span of a single generation.

In telling his family's story, GB finds his own place in this saga of hardship and heroism. Vietnamerica is a visually stunning portrait of survival, escape, and reinvention--and of the gift of the American immigrants' dream, passed on to their children. Vietnamerica is an unforgettable story of family revelation and reconnection--and a new graphic-memoir classic.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Villard Books
Published: 01/25/2011
ISBN: 9780345508720
Pages: 246
Weight: 2.21lbs
Size: 9.46h x 7.36w x 1.06d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/29/2010
Library Journal 01/01/2011 pg. 71
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2011 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2011 pg. 58

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 150738 / Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
Reading Level: 3.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 2
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