By Zack Quaintance — Year of the Rabbit is a new graphic novel from writer/artist Tian Veasna, based on a harrowing true story he lived through as a child. That story is his family’s struggle to survive/flee the reign of the violent Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, following that group’s seizure of power in 1975. What emerges is a memoir comic of sorts that does not quite feel like a memoir comic. Instead it reads as a tense and harrowing story of escape, dotted with devastating-yet-important notes from a history largely unknown to many in the United States.