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Within Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
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"I also hope afterward yous terminate this book that you lot sit shut to someone you love and implore that person to tell and tell and tell their story."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"No ane tin can sweep,
for why sweep away hope?
No one can splash water,
for why splash away joy?

(celebration of Tet)"
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"In the distance
bombs
explode like thunder,
slashes
lighten the sky,
gunfire
falls like rain"
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"South Vietnam no longer exists.

1 woman tries to throw
herself overboard,
screaming that without a country
she cannot alive."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Once again

"So by chance Mother learns
sponsors prefer those
whose applications say, "Christians."

Just like that
Mother amends our faith,
proverb all beliefs
are pretty much the same."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Dorsum Over again

"Father would appear in my course speaking beautiful English language as he does French and Chinese and concord out his hand for mine."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"Misss Scott
shows the course
photographs

of a burned, naked daughter
running, crying down a dirt road

of people climbing, screaming.
desperate to get on
the last helicopter
out of Saigon

of skeletal refugees, crammed aboard a
sinking line-fishing gunkhole,
reaching upwards to the heavens for assist

of mounds of combat boots
abandoned by soldiers
of the loosing side.

She's telling the class
Where I'm from.
She should have shown
something about
papayas and Tet.

No one would believe me
just at times
I would choose
wartime in Saigon
over
peacetime in Alabama."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"I thought I would beloved
seeing him in pain.
Simply
he looks
more defeated than weak,
more helpless than scared,
similar a caged puppy"
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Once more

"They express joy. Shame on them! Challenge them to say something in Vietnamese and express joy right dorsum"
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Once more

"I repeat, Há, and wish I knew enough English to tell her
to heed for the diacritical mark, this ane directing the tone downward."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Once again

"Mother says
if the price of eggs
were non the price of rice,
and the price of rice
were not the price of gasoline,
and the price of gasoline
were not the cost of gilt,
them of form
Brother Khoi
could keep hatching eggs."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"At this indicate,
Mother closes her eyes,
eyes that resemble no ane else's,
sunken and deep like Westerners'
yet almond-shaped like ours.
I e'er wish for her eyes,
merely Female parent says no.
Eyes like hers can't assist
by carry sadness;
even as a child
her parents were alarmed
by the weight in her eyes."
― Thanhha Lai, Within Out & Back Once again

"We pretend
the monsoon
has come early.

In the distance
bombs
explode like thunder,
slashes
lighten the sky,
gunfire
falls like rain.

Distant
however within ears,
within optics.

Non that far away
after all."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Once again

"Mother wants to sell
the amethyst band
Begetter brought back
from America,
where he trained
in the navy
before I was born.

She wants to purchase
needles and thread,
fabric and sandals
from the camp's
black marketplace.

I accept never seen her
without this purple rock.
I tin't fall asleep
unless I twist the ring
and count circles.

Brother Quang says,
NO!
What'due south the point of
new shirts and sandals
if you lose the last
tangible remnant of dearest?

I don't understand
what he said
just I agree."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Dorsum Over again

"Then by adventure Mother learns
sponsors prefer those
whose application say "Christians."

Just similar that
Mother apology our faith,
saying all beliefs
are pretty much the same."
― Thanhha Lai, Within Out & Back Again

"I step back,
hating pity,
having learned
from Female parent that
the pity giver
feels better,
never the pity receiver."
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

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