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Soneela Nankani's narration was fabulous! 4. An instant New York Times bestseller ' Internment sets itself. Look at what is happening on our southern border… This is a must read book, it needs to be in every library collection. These characters and this story will stay with me a long time.
What side will you stand on? Would you fight before it happens or put your head in the sand while they carry off your neighbors? This book will make you think, I hope it will make you realize we don’t want this as our future. These are American Muslims, US Citizens put into camps, marked with a number how can this happen here? Again how can we let it happen again? Are there truths in this book, oh yeah, hard ones, ones we white people really need to look at. I would hope I have Layla’s courage to stand up to the injustices or even the strength of Jake & Fred, heroes all. I want to do justice to this book but I feel like my words are not enough, this dystopian book could happen in one tweet. (Mar.The most frightening thing about this book is knowing how easily it could come true, especially right now. An unsettling and important book for our times. Ahmed keeps the tension mounting as Layla faces increasingly violent consequences for her actions the teenagers’ relationships are depicted authentically, and their strength and resistance are inspiring. While her parents shrink into compliance, Layla quickly makes friends and allies who band together to bring public attention to internees’ treatment, close down the camps, and put an end to the country’s fascism and Islamophobia. Still, her family’s abrupt nighttime “relocation” to a camp-during which each arrival is branded with ultraviolet identification encoding-is a shock. On a personal level, she was suspended from school for kissing her non-Muslim boyfriend in public, and her poet-professor father has lost his job. president’s weekly National Security Address. Layla Amin, the rebellious 17-year-old Muslim narrator, is enraged by the changes that her small liberal California community accepts: curfews, book burnings, required viewing of the U.S. Ahmed ( Love, Hate & Other Filters) sets her chilling novel in the very near future: two-and-a-half years after an election that brought about a Muslim ban, exclusion laws, and the internment of Muslims in a disturbing echo of the Japanese internments of the 1940s.
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