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In December 2011, National Public Radio listed Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again as one of the best children’s books of the year. Billed also as a novel in verse, the book won the 2011 National Book Award. The author delved into her own recollections of Vietnam, her family’s flight in 1975, and the first months of their uneasy residence in Alabama as material for capturing the “emotional life” of the main character, Ha.
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