On sale now: VIETNAMERICA

A 288 page, full color, hardcover graphic memoir published by Villard. Read the first 10 pages at PW’s Panel Mania and see more excerpts in the COMICS section. Available at your local comic shop, book stores, and online retailers. French edition available from Steinkis. Spanish edition available Spring 2012 from Grupo Editorial Norma.

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Book trailer by Joe Tomcho and ABC World News Now segment by Tina Trinh.

SELECTED PRESS:

“This will be called the MAUS for the Vietnam War, and for good reason. Similar premise: clueless American-born son of
immigrants confronts the legacy of family pain predating his birth. Similar outcome: a kick-in- the-gut graphic novel... he
purposely fragments the plot, shifting points of view, narrative voices, and settings while the reader—as did Tran—must
assemble the pieces to learn how his parents became the people he knew. Engaging, challenging, and disturbing, Tran’s
family memoir belongs in all public and academic libraries...” —Library Journal (Starred Review)

“Beyond storytelling, Tran is an artist truly gifted in his medium.” —The Washington Post

“... Disturbing but also uplifting.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"In Tran's memoir, theme, narrative, and art work together to create a deeply compelling graphic novel. Tran meditates
on war, loss, and memory, but the overriding theme is the complexity, hardship, and reward of family life, a theme that
finds full life in the author's multilayered narrative. His artwork—richly detailed but never overcrowded, realistic while
allowing for abstraction, and expertly composed—wrings meaning out of the smallest detail. This novel could easily
find a place in the classroom..." —School Library Journal

“A terrific and amazing memoir.” —Miami Herald

"VIETNAMERICA is an utterly remarkable piece of American literature. If you have ever felt a connection
to the immigrant experience, if you are born of a generation that benefited from the bruises and blood of
the one that came before, then this memoir will resonate as literature rarely does." —Racebending

"... Atmospheric and evocative, sometimes kaleidoscopic to the point of psychedelia
in its construction and formal invention." —Warren Ellis

"GB channels Will Eisner, other times Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, but always making it uniquely himself.
Like David Mazzucchelli's ASTERIOS POLYP, VIETNAMERICA asks a lot from the reader, but to me that
exemplifies what comics at their best can achieve... I already consider it my top book of 2011—I can't
imagine anything else topping it this year." —Josh Neufeld

PRESS LINKS:

ABC World News Now / Angry Asian Man / Animation Insider / Asian American Lit Fans / Books on the Nightstand
Broken Frontier / Brooklyn Paper / Colorlines / Comic Book of the Month / Comic Book Resources / Diacritics 1
Diacritics 2 / Die is Cast / Downtown Traveler / From the Desk of... / Good OK Bad / Graphic Novel Reporter / Guys Lit Wire
Hyphen 1 / Hyphen 2 / Ich Liebe Comics! / ICV2 / Kirkus Reviews / LA Times / Library Journal / Los Angeles Public Libary
Miami Herald / Newsday / Page 45 / Publishers Weekly / Racebending / Romantic Times / School Library Journal
SF Site / Star Ledger / Suvudu / SWON Libraries / Toronto Star / Washington Post / Ye Shall Be As Comics

AUDIO INTERVIEWS:

Pro-T.I.P.s / Toronto Comic Art Festival Panel / Comic Geek Speak (27:30 mark)