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Lai, Thanhha

Inside Out & Back Again

263 pp. | HarperCollins/Harper | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-196278-3 $15.99
(2) 4-6 Recounting events that resemble her own family's 1975 flight from Saigon, Lai pens a novel in vividly imagined verse. In Alabama, Ha is daunted by challenges including mastering idiosyncratic English. Many people are cruelly antagonistic, but Ha soon finds allies at school. Spare language captures the sensory disorientation of changing cultures as well as a refugee's complex emotions and kaleidoscopic loyalties.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2011

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