Audiobook2 hours
Inside Out & Back Again
Written by Thanhhà Lai
Narrated by Doan Ly
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama.
For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by … and the beauty of her very own papaya tree.
But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Hà discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape … and the strength of her very own family.
This is the moving story of one girl’s year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
“Open this book, read it slowly to savor the delicious language. Before closing it, go back to the beginning, this time to let the story of ten-year-old Hà and the year she escaped from South Vietnam, 1975, leaving behind the world she knew and loved, sink in. Don’t close the covers yet. Read it again to notice how perfect the thin line of the prose itself mirrors the thin line that Hà walks during that year.
This is a book that asks the reader to be careful, to pay attention, to sigh at the end.”—Kathi Appelt, bestselling author of the Newbery Honor Book THE UNDERNEATH
National Book Award
Newbery Honor Book
For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by … and the beauty of her very own papaya tree.
But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Hà discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape … and the strength of her very own family.
This is the moving story of one girl’s year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
“Open this book, read it slowly to savor the delicious language. Before closing it, go back to the beginning, this time to let the story of ten-year-old Hà and the year she escaped from South Vietnam, 1975, leaving behind the world she knew and loved, sink in. Don’t close the covers yet. Read it again to notice how perfect the thin line of the prose itself mirrors the thin line that Hà walks during that year.
This is a book that asks the reader to be careful, to pay attention, to sigh at the end.”—Kathi Appelt, bestselling author of the Newbery Honor Book THE UNDERNEATH
National Book Award
Newbery Honor Book
Author
Thanhhà Lai
Thanhhà Lại is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award and Newbery Honor–winning Inside Out and Back Again; the celebrated Listen, Slowly; the teen novel Butterfly Yellow; and the picture book Hundred Years of Happiness. She was born in Việt Nam and now lives in New York.
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Reviews for Inside Out & Back Again
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is so powerful and so inspiring I love this book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I need to stop loving every book I read, but this book was really heart warming. I would recommend this book on a dime. I love how the book was set up and executed. Ha is a greater character with beautiful character development. Read it now.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved it!!!!!! it was amazing I love it XD
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It shows the reality of how hard it must have been for the refugees from Vietnam to change them selfs in new ways , bad and good.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was beautifully written and really gave insight into a young Vietnamese girl. I enjoyed the story and the writing. Beautiful!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An incredible and heartbreaking story about perseverance while facing adversity.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While Inside Out and Back Again is an important novel on verse about Hà and her journey during the Vietnam War and how ger family must flee, but I felt disconnected from the overall story.
It was like I received a glimpse into the MCs life and everything she and her family was going through but it wasn't and immersive tale nor something I resonated with. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very gripping account of someone who must learn to live in a different world.