VIETNAMERICA: A FAMILY’S JOURNEY

Book ID/图书代码： 01240010B42825

English Summary/英文概要： 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一本非常精彩的图片回忆录记载了作者的一家是如何变成越南美国人的心路历程。

GB Tran是一个年轻的越南裔美国艺术家，他在离他家乡很远的地方长大。在北卡罗来纳州出生和长大的是移民者的后代，他知道自己的父母是在西贡陨落时期来到美国的。但是尽管新环境的生活很辛苦，他们还是宁愿忘记自己的过去并着眼于自己孩子的未来。到年近三十的时候GB才开始找寻他们过往那段不同寻常的故事。在GB的祖父母都过世之后，他第一次飞去了越南并知晓了他的家族甚至是他的故乡的悲惨历史。

在这段痛苦的历史中，GB找到了父亲疏离家庭的原因，还有母亲为什么愿意维持这段伤痕累累的婚姻，他的祖父为什么跑起来家庭去加入越南解放战争，为什么祖母和一个法国士兵有染。GB了解了他的家族为什么在战争的最后时刻离开越南来到美国，并不是为了更好的生活环境，而是因为害怕如果他们留在越南会发生什么事情。他们来到了美国——一片陌生的异国土地——家族的历史就在一代之间突然断截了。

在诉说自己家族的故事时，GB找到了自己在这段悲伤回忆中的位置和英雄气概。本书清晰地描绘了一幅生存、逃离和重塑的美丽图画，这也是美国移民给自己儿孙最好的礼物。这是一个令人难忘的家庭重聚的故事，也是一本经典的图画回忆录。(兼职翻译-LN)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Gia-Bao（简称GB）Tran于1976年出生在北卡罗来纳州，那是他的父母从越南来到美国的第二年。他在布鲁克林做卡通画家，过着舒适的生活，但是和妻子的关系无疾而终。他的父母总是告诉他，如果做画家不成功，他完全有能力可以做个总统。

Gia-Bao (aka GB) Tran was born in South Carolina in 1976, a year after his parents fled Vietnam. He aspires to continue living the good life as a Brooklyn cartoonist/illustrator thanks, in large part, to the endless patience of his wife. His parents constantly remind him that if this “art thingy” doesn’t work out, he can, as the only family member born in the United States, be president instead.

Format:全彩四色

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