Conversation with author Thanhhà Lai
May 22, 2023
We had a wonderfully enlightening “Conversation with..” author Thanhhà Lai this afternoon. The students just finished reading her lyrically written book “Inside Out and Back Again.” It is historical fiction based on her family’s emigration from Vietnam to the U.S. when she was 10 years old in 1975. The wide ranging conversation with the students went far beyond the novel and into the immigrant experience and the writing process.
Our thanks to Martha Marani of The Ivy Bookshop for arranging for Thanhhà’s visit and also providing a delicious lunch. We appreciated meeting Xandi Egginton also from The Ivy Bookshop and having him join us.
Our deepest gratitude for Thanhhà Lai’s generous sharing of time and story with us.