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Authors: Thanhha Lai
THANHHA LAI
was born in Vietnam and moved to Alabama at the end of the war. She lives in New York City with her family.
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INSIDE OUT & BACK AGAIN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lai, Thanhha.
Inside out and back again / Thanhha Lai.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
ISBN 978-0-06-196278-3
[1. Novels in verse. 2. Vietnamese Americans—Fiction. 3. Emigration and immigration—Fiction. 4. Immigrants—Fiction. 5. Vietnam—History—1971–1980—Fiction. 6. Alabama—History—1951—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.5.L35In 2011 2010007855
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
AC
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-206972-6
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