ON TRUE WAR STORIES
“Cabramatta” is an autobiographical interactive and print comic about growing up in a community of Vietnam War refugees resettled in Australia’s heroin capital.
on true war stories, 2018
‘On True War Stories’ is an illustrated adaption of excerpt from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s personal essay.
This visual essay was originally printed as a double-sided color gatefold insert commissioned by guest editor Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis for The Massachusetts Review Volume 59, Number 4, Winter 2018 special edition on Asian American literature.
It was included in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2019, edited by Edan Lepucki & 826 National.
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