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rossferkett 's review for:
A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah
Honest and heartbreaking, this story is important for its ability to elicit our sympathy for people who are carrying out unthinkable acts of violence. Those of us who are so far removed from this kind of war (or any other) too easily demonize the participants with no real understanding of what is driving them. In the context of the conflict they are dead people who just haven't died yet - there is no other way out. It is unimaginably lucky that Ishmael Beah survived both the war and his own internal destruction to write his book.