Inside Out and Back Again is about a girl named Ha, who grows up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. But as the war gets worse she has to leave the only place she has ever known. She travels by boat with her mother and her brothers (her father left to go to war, and never returned). She stays in tents in Guam for a while, but then she moves to Alabama. She has a lot of good memories of Saigon in Vietnam, especially her Papaya tree. But she has to adjust, because she knows that with the war, she can not go back. This book was written in verse, which I actually really liked. I would definitely recommend this if you like books in verse.For a book group I think it would be cool to do a nonfiction book.
Nice review; this sounds like an interesting book. Just one thing that confuses me: do you mean verse instead of prose? Prose is "normal" writing, verse is poetry.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. The cover is very pretty.
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