Tom's next guest is Young Vo, a Baltimore-based artist, animator, and illustrator whose new children's picture book, Gibberish, has just been published by Levine Querido.
![Young Vo is a Baltimore-based animator, author and illustrator who came to the United States as a young refugee from Vietnam. (courtesy photo)](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b7eac3c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2504x3040+0+0/resize/880x1068!/brightness/13x5/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcd%2F94%2F1888f4954bbfb33dfab5717d3a59%2Fyoung-vo-headshot.png)
Vo's debut storyof a young Asian immigrant who struggles to understand the language of his newly adopted home country mirrors Vo's own experience after coming to the United States as a young refugee from Vietnam.
Young Vo joins us on Zoom from Baltimore.