Meet the Cast
Kim Hà
Hà is our main girl in Inside Out and Back Again, the poet whose words we read as she goes from enjoying her free time in Saigon to—after much trial and tribulation—finally starting to settle...
Mother
Hà's mom is the center of her universe for the majority of this story, because, well, Hà is only ten. And since Hà and her family leave Saigon and travel all the way to the United States, where...
Hà's Brothers: Khoi, Vu, and Quang
As is often the case with ten-year-old girls, Hà often finds her three older brothers—Khoi, Vu, and Quang—rather pesky. It's standard siblings stuff, though, and at the end of the day they all...
Cowboy and Wife
You'd think the people who adopt Hà's family to help get them set up in American would be major characters, but since we're stuck in the perspective of a ten-year-old for this one, these grown-ups...
Minor Characters
FatherWe never get to meet Hà's father because he went missing on a mission when she was a baby, but that doesn't stop her family from hoping and praying for his return even nine years later. By t...