"Journalism is just very structured…One day I turned in a story and [an editor] said to me, ‘You can’t compare inanimate objects with animate objects,’ and I realized I had to leave."
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On why she left journalism in “How former Register reporter Thanhha Lai turned childhood rage into a National Book Award” in Orange Coast Magazine (2012 Feb 11)
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