This fun book design project for VietnamEazy, a wonderful little mother-daughter story, kept me inspired and delighted as I put together the pages that include old family pictures and recipes. I had fun with the bright red and sea green color palette, creating a pattern inspired by traditional Vietnamese ornamental designs. Each chapter of this book has a delicious recipe from one of several Bay Area Vietnamese restaurants. Mouthwatering fun and a great pleasure to design.

“Like Viet Thanh Nguyen’s acclaimed The Sympathizer, VietnamEazy captures with startling honesty and detail the dizzying dislocation that so many Vietnamese arrivals in the United States have experienced and, like Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, explores the age-old mysteries of the mother-daughter relationship. It tells the story of Kieu, a Vietnamese-American woman, and her quest for success on a TV cooking show, introducing the intoxicating allure of Vietnamese food to a general audience, interwoven with the haunting, sorrowful tale of her family and upbringing. This is a universal tale of redemption that mothers and daughters can read together and discuss, preferably over a steaming bowl of pho.”