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#BroaderBookshelf Book Group
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Take the #BroaderBookshelf reading challenge and expand your reading horizons! Join us for a virtual book group discussion of this month’s title, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Soldier Boy, by Ishmael Beah as we cover the prompt "Read a book about war".
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.
Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But it is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived.
In A Long Way Gone Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
This title is available in multiple formats. Click here to find your copy! It is also available as an eAudioBook for immediate download via Hoopla.
The #BroaderBookshelf book group meets virtually the first Wednesday of every month from 7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. After registering, a Zoom link will be provided via email one day prior to the event.
Questions? Email lcazier@richlandlibrary.com or mryan@richlandlibrary.com
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