Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 6:30 PM
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By age thirteen, Beah had become one of the world's 300,000 child soldiers, forced through drug addiction and threats to commit atrocities. Three years later, Beah was released to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, where he struggled to regain his humanity and reenter the civilian world. A Long Way Gone is the first comprehensive first-person account of this widespread phenomenon by a child soldier rather than a journalist or novelist.