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Review ------ --Selected by Time Entertainment as one of their "Top 10 Graphic Memoirs of All Time" --Awarded the Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal in Sequential Art --Awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts' Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature --Selected by School Library Journal and Library Journal as one of their "Best Books of 2011" --Nominated for the 2012 Eisner Award's "Best Reality Based Work" category "A terrific and amazing memoir." --Miami Herald "Beyond storytelling, Tran is an artist truly gifted in his medium." --The Washington Post "VIETNAMERICA is an utterly remarkable piece of American literature... this memoir resonate[s] as literature rarely does." --Racebending "... Atmospheric and evocative, sometimes kaleidoscopic to the point of psychedelia in its construction and formal invention." --Warren Ellis Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) From the Author --------------- Vietnamerica is what happened when I realized to better understand myself, I needed to first better understand my parents. It's the 50-year journey of my family's trauma, tragedy, and triumph through Vietnam's wars, and reinvention in its aftermath as refugees in theUnited States. It's the unraveling of my family's truth and what's uncovered when I drew my past to write my future. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) About the Author ---------------- I'm the child of war refugees, born after my parents fled Vietnam and landed in the United State's deep south. Through the following decades of migration--South Carolina to Arizona to New York to California--comics were a constant in my life. They've entertained, educated, and enriched me longer than I can remember, and I work to explore their unique language of images and words and endless narrative potential. My cartooning career began with the aid of a Xeric Grant for comic self-publishers and includes the graphic memoir Vietnamerica that reveals the story of my family's trauma, tragedy, and triumph during the Vietnam War and reinvention in its aftermath as refugees. I live in the Bay Area with my wife and kids, creating comics the former considers too personal and--when they're grown up enough to realize it--the latter will consider too embarrassing. Read more ( javascript:void(0) )