Our Stories Carried Us Here - by Tea Rozman & Julie Vang

Our Stories Carried Us Here is a powerful collection of first-person stories told and illustrated by immigrants and refugees living across the United States.

This graphic novel anthology presents ten vibrantly illustrated stories, each chronicling a unique journey from diverse countries such as Guatemala, Chad, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan to the United States.

The storytellers share their experiences of facing unfamiliar vistas, welcomed with possibilities but confronted by challenges and prejudice.

Through these stories, readers will gain empathy and insight into the struggles and triumphs of acclimating to a new language, culture, and worldview.

The anthology features artistic styles that offer pleasing variety within a unifying thematic framework, with each story accompanied by brief biographies and photos or drawings of the storytellers and artists, as well as glossaries defining potentially unfamiliar terms.

This collaboration between storytellers and illustrators from around the country offers a testament to the power of language as vessels for carrying our memories and the power of images in holding fast the boundaries of who we were and who we will be.