Beautiful. Inside Out and Back Again intrigued me before I opened the cover because I knew it was written in verse. I tend to admire pithy writing; a novel in verse promised efficient use of words. It delivered, and it also delivered the compelling story of a compelling hero that remains as relevant today as in 1975. Ten-year-old Ha journeys from familiar childhood to refugee in a strange land (Alabama) in the year of the cat, the year Saigon fell.
Ms. Thanhha Lai, whose story is largely autobiographical, packs more power in a single stanza than most accomplished authors can pour into a page. Beautiful.
Ms. Thanhha Lai, whose story is largely autobiographical, packs more power in a single stanza than most accomplished authors can pour into a page. Beautiful.
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