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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
3.0

I don't know why I keep reading these books. Maybe I just want to understand war. I end up questioning the white editors' motivations and the veracity of the narrator. Beah's claim of photographic memory rang so many bullshit bells that I don't know why I kept reading. Still it is well written and on a topic the Western world needs to hear and see.

My favorite boy soldier story (Allah is not Obliged) makes no pretense at memoir. It's all fiction and all horrifying and...why doesn't it get more notice?