By Maggie Martin
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Tuscaloosa, AL – The National Book Foundation honored a writer from Alabama during its annual awards ceremony last week. Thanhha Lai won for Young People's Literature. Lai is the youngest of nine children. She was born in Vietnam and moved to Alabama in 1975. Alabama Public Radio's Maggie Martin sat down with Lai to talk about her novel "Inside Out and Back Again" how it reflects her own life experiences.