Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại

This is the moving story of one girl's year of change,dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, onelife to the next.

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Overview

Moving to America turns Hà’s life inside out.

For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of itstraditions, the warmth of her friends close by . . . and the beauty of her veryown papaya tree.

But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà andher family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headedtoward hope. In America, Hà discovers the foreign world of Alabama: thecoldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of itslandscape . . . and the strength of her very own family.

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Deborah Abela

666 ABC Canberra

‘A beautifully written verse novel.’

Pass It On

‘This beautifully written verse novel is based on her recollections and emotions during a time of great loss, insecurity and new beginnings.’

The Geelong Advertiser

‘A book to be read slowly and savoured.’

Thanhhà Lại

Thanhhà Lại is a Vietnamese-American writer of middle-grade and young adult novels. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and daughter. Her dog Pico assists her by stepping directly onto the keys of her computer as she types. Her first novel, Inside Out & Back Again (2011), which won the National Book Award and a Newbery Honor, was partly based on her childhood as a refugee growing up in the southern United States. Other books include Listen, Slowly (2015) and Butterfly Yellow (2019), her YA debut. Hundred Years of Happiness (2022), Thanhhà’s first picture book, is out now.