Thanhha Lai

Feb 8, 2024 | hbook.com | Thanhha Lai |Nick Brooks |Angela Joy |April Harrison

Greetings, everyone. I’m delighted to be holding in my hands this shiny plate for writing When Clouds Touch Us, a novel-in-verse sequel to Inside Out & Back Again. I was an intern in 1987 at the Boston Globe. Way back then, I was already dreaming of writing fiction, and I never thought one day a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award would arrive in my mail. Greetings, everyone.

Mar 23, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Thanhha Lai

When American soldiers withdrew from Vietnam 50 years ago, they took their salaries home with them. Immediately, the people who had depended on their dollars panicked. Women who used to be able to afford the children's clothes my mother designed began to worry about meat and vegetables. That meant my own family had less to spend. My mother had to let go of the woman who washed our laundry (by hand) and cooked our lunch (we paid her with a bowl of the food she made).