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amalelmohtar 's review for:
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
For the African Life-Writing course. Simply, gorgeously written, utterly heart-breaking, harrowing, devastating. Made me cry often.
A bit of googling shows there was controversy when it came out over the accuracy of the account. This is, I think, par for the memoir course? But treating it just as a book -- it was gripping, moving, mournful and hard. I read it in a sitting.
A bit of googling shows there was controversy when it came out over the accuracy of the account. This is, I think, par for the memoir course? But treating it just as a book -- it was gripping, moving, mournful and hard. I read it in a sitting.