Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of family and immigration/5(K). Inspired by the author's own childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam as a refugee and immigrating to Alabama, this Newbery Honor Book and National Book Award winner told in verse is sure to capture young readers' hearts and open their eyes. Lai, Thanhha. (). Inside Out Back Again. New York: Harper. pp. $ (Hardcover). ISBN: Reviewed by. Quan Manh Ha. University of Montana. Inside Out Back Again, by Thanhha Lai, is the first Vietnamese American memoir of childhood written. Author: Quan Manh Ha.
Inside Out Back Again. Thanhha Lai. To the millions of refugees in the world, may you each find a home. Contents. Part I. Saigon. Year of the Cat. Inside Out. Kim Hà. Papaya Tree. TiTi Waves Good-bye. Missing in Action. Mother's Days. Eggs. Current News. Feel Smart. Two More Papayas. Unknown Father. TV News. Birthday. Birthday Wishes. Inside Out and Back Again is a wonderfully heartbreaking story that captures a world foreign to many of its readers and makes it familiar. Thanhha Lai's playful use of form and her ability to say a lot by saying a little create a story that transcends any reader's age, nationality, or gender. An Interview with Thanhha Lai, author of Inside Out Back Again. In conjunction with our new exhibition The Vietnam War: , our Reading into History Family Book Club welcomes National Book Award winning author Thanhha Lai to our November 12 meeting. Thanhha Lai discusses her stunning semi-autobiographical book-in-verse Inside Out and.
Inside Out Back Again is the debut novel from Thanhha Lai, who incorporates her own childhood memories of fleeing the Vietnam war as a refugee to Alabama in the s. I love middle grades quasi-memoir, especially when I see that it is written in verse, so I pinned this one to the top of my TBR when a student mentioned it to me earlier in Featured Book: Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out and Back Again. HarperCollins. What a pow erful debut work from new voice Thanhha Lai. It’s a loosely autobiographical work about her own experience as a refugee from Vietnam in the s. Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out Back Again is the story of a young Vietnamese refugee girl, Ha, and her family’s escape from Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War. This novel follows the diaspora story of a family being forced to abandon their home, flee their homeland and move to new place.
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