Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - Bilingual

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - BilingualYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Memoir An NPR Best Books of 2023 A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in America, perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and The Best We Could Do! Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea

– from Chapter 11 – True Love Everyone was looking up at the top of an electric post

these stories are distinctive in their emotional range: each one flying inland

from a poet who paves her journey by documenting the everyday vanishings and appearances

and proposes hypotheses regarding the whys and wherefores of this specific segment of our literature

This is one of the individual illustrated books that Anvil Publishing

“Dogeaters is a fine achievement on a very serious scale…This is the definitive novel of the encounter between the Philippines and America and their history of mutual illusion

Mayette Villarosa

Publisher: University of the Philippines (2005)

6 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1

some more than others

This volume collects forty essays

It is also worth pointing out that the youngest writer included here is a Grade 4 student at the University of East-Caloocan