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A review by ashleylane26
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
5.0
I think when I was finished with this book I more clearly understood how very, very lucky I am and also the amazing ability of the human spirit to overcome.
This is a hard read- if you want a light memoir don't pick it up. But if you want to more fully understand what happens in some less developed, more remote countries in your world then read it. And while revolutions in other countries may not have indentured children into slavery as soldiers and forced them to kill- each country's revolution has its stories of hardship, tragedy, death, and pain. Sometimes I think we need to stop and remember what people have gone through in our past to give us the ability to live the lives we have.
That Ishmael Beah made it through the events of his childhood to go on and study in America and then write this book shows that the human spirit can endure much.
It's a beautiful book.
This is a hard read- if you want a light memoir don't pick it up. But if you want to more fully understand what happens in some less developed, more remote countries in your world then read it. And while revolutions in other countries may not have indentured children into slavery as soldiers and forced them to kill- each country's revolution has its stories of hardship, tragedy, death, and pain. Sometimes I think we need to stop and remember what people have gone through in our past to give us the ability to live the lives we have.
That Ishmael Beah made it through the events of his childhood to go on and study in America and then write this book shows that the human spirit can endure much.
It's a beautiful book.