Inside out back again is a verse novel by thanhha lai the book was awarded the 2011 national book award for young peoples literature and one of the two newbery honors the novel was based on her first year in the united states as a ten year old girl who spoke no english in 1975. Inside out and back again lai thanahha ly doan isbn 9781464020971 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Inside out back again thanhha lai inside out back again is a verse novel by thanhha lai the book was awarded the 2011 national book award for young peoples literature and one of the two newbery honors the novel was based on her first year in the united states as a ten year old girl who spoke no english in 1975 inside out and back again is a story about a young girl named kim ha and . Inside out and back again is not technically an autobiography and is not a contemporaneous diary but forty something year old lai seems to have invoked her own inner ten year old letting her tell the story in her own words affirming the significance of herself as sufficient context never mind the sweep of history in which she exists in doing so lai gives the reader a rare gift the