A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, is a clear-eyed and haunting firsthand account of a child’s abduction into the horrors of the Sierra Leonean Civil War. The narrative begins in 1993, when twelve-year-old Ishmael, his older brother Junior, and their friend Talloi leave their home in Mogbwemo for a …