If you’re looking for a real page turner, “A Long Way Gone” by Ishameal Beah is just for you. Beah’s book is about his childhood growing up in Sierra Leone and how the rebels took everything he ever loved/cared about away.
The book starts off when Ishmael is about 12 years old, and rebels start going village by village, spreading chaos everywhere. Ishmael is forced to run for his life, and leave his family behind. Don’t worry, Ishmael isn’t entirely alone he forms a group of 7 boys he finds along the way. They go to villages looking for refuge, and food, and sometimes they’d be fresh out of luck.
As the war progresses, Ishmael slowly loses himself and stops showing emotion. He and his friends eventually get captured by the rebels or the RUF (revolutionary united front) and is forced to become a soldier. Beah is ordered to kill, do drugs, and many other horrible tasks. He becomes belligerent, and runs off of brown brown, and violence.
The UNICEF comes to rescue him from the nightmare, and is taken to a rehab center. There he learns how to be a human again,let people in, and most of all stay off drugs. Ishmael is given a new chance at life. If you enjoy memoirs, and non-fiction, go grab a copy of this book as soon as possible.
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