When Clouds Touch Us

When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhh Lai

Inspired by the author's own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after H and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Việt Nam War.

H and her family have worked hard to make a life for themselves in the US, but it hasn't come easy. H has only just started to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job.

H knows how hard starting over is and doesn't want to have to do it again. But sometimes even an unwanted change can bring opportunity, new friends, and a place to call home.

This lyrical and compelling sequel to the National Book Award Medalist and Newbery Honor winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Inside Out and Back Again follows H and her family through another year of upheaval, growth, and love.

Thanhha Lai was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in 1975. She graduated from the University of Texas with a journalism degree and worked for the Orange County Register for two years before deciding to pursue fiction writing. She teaches writing at Parsons The New School of Design and lives in New York City with her family.