The East Bay’s Thien Pham and Briana Loewinsohn will read from their works at A Great Good Place for Books in the Oakland hills.
), comics artist and high school educator Thien Pham’s “Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam” begins each chapter with a thematic dish — rice balls, bánh cuốn, steak and potatoes and more.
Pham and Loewinsohn will read from and discuss their new graphic memoirs Oct. 6 at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland’s Montclair Village . “It means I’m finally grateful in a way I’d never been. Now when I draw, teach, wake up every day, I feel I have to live my life to the fullest because of the sacrifices made for me. I’m trying to enjoy every moment of life. I’ve been freed by this book, which is an interesting thought.”
“I asked my dad if the refugee camp, living in squalor, coming from nothing and the boat trip were the saddest times of his life. He told me ‘No, they were the best times.’ Because we had a community of people all there to help each other. Of course, we had tragedy, but we had one thing that kept us going: hope.”
Pham says through comic books he has made friends, found employment and been provided community and cultural connection. A major player in that group is Loewinsohn, who is a close friend of Pham, who is the godfather to her two children, an 11-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. “I made my mother look small and restrained, but she was actually a very large, wild-looking woman. In the book, she looks more like her mom, my grandmother. Once I realized it wasn’t a documentary about my life, I felt free. It opened the door artistically.”
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