alexpburns 's review for:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

4.0

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I appreciated this story because it was not overly gruesome although the author experienced many terrible things. It gave me hope that things in African war-torn countries (and others) can change, but what a long way there still is to go. As I was reading the book I was comparing dates of what was happening in Sierra Leone and what I was doing in my life. I am party mad (at myself) that I was so ignorant of the situation there as a high school and college student.