'Family Style' graphic novel uses food memories to tell a refugee story

In his new graphic novel "Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam,” comic artist and high school teacher Thien Pham tells the story of his family's journey as refugees from Vietnam to the United States.

Pham’s family escaped Vietnam to a refugee camp in Thailand in the late 1970s. On the boat there, Pham clung to a rice ball as pirates attacked the ship — one of his first memories.