Lunar New Year Love Story
by Gene Luen Yang, LeUyen Pham
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New | 2025 | Winner |
About This Book
Val Tran is cursed against love—or so her Vietnamese grandmother has always told her. When a charming boy enters her life during Lunar New Year preparations, Val must decide whether to break the pattern. Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham's vibrant graphic novel celebrates Vietnamese-American identity and the risk of hope.
About the Authors
Gene Luen Yang is an American cartoonist, author, and former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. He won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New in 2007 for American Born Chinese, the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award. In 2025 he won again for Lunar New Year Love Story with illustrator LeUyen Pham.
LeUyen Pham is a Vietnamese-American illustrator of picture books and graphic novels. She won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New in 2025 for Lunar New Year Love Story (First Second/Macmillan), co-created with Gene Luen Yang. The book also won Best Publication for Teens and Best Writer for Yang at the same ceremony.
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