Thanhha Lai: Award-winning author for Young Adult literature

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Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:00am
Thanhha Lai

Sarika Mehta spoke with Thanhha Lai, author of Inside Out & Back Again. Thanhha Lai's semi-autobiographical book of prose poems won the 2011 National Book Award for Young Adult Literature as well as the 2012 Newberry Honor. She describes her experiences as a Vietnamese refugee in Alabama at the height of the Vietnam War. 

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