"Vietnamese is so lyrical, and 80% percent of it is derived from Chinese, which is a language built from pictures not words. So this format and voice came out of that desire."
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On the writing style used for Inside Out & Back Again in âSpring 2011 Flying Starts: Thanhha Laiâ in Publishers Weekly (2011 Jun 20)
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