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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
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FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-206972-6
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