Internment
by Samira Ahmed
Published by Atom
on March 19, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian / Contemporary
Length: 386 pages
Synopsis:
Rebellions are built on hope.
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camps Director and his guard.
Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camps Director and his guard.
Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.
My Thoughts:
CW for excessive colorful language, xenophobia, and violence.
Set in a horrifying near-future U.S., seventeen-year-old Layla Amin (a Muslim American) and her parents are forcibly detained and bused to an internment camp after the president declared a Muslim ban across the United States. There, she makes new friends, unlikely allies, and uses her right as an American to stand up against the fascist regime that imprisoned her.
"Rebellion," after all, "is as American as apple pie."
Layla, her family, and everyone else thrust into the camp are shaken to the core. The political climate in this dystopia closely mirrors our current reality in the US, making this pretty realistic and more of a cautionary tale than anything. There's a quote on the book that says it's a "scathing indictment of the current political climate," and it does not sugar coat or shy away from pointing out what has happened in the past to Japanese-Americans, what is happening, and what could happen. Because of the inflammatory nature of this book, I wouldn't recommend it to those whose 'feathers are ruffled too easily'.
If you do happen to read this, be sure to read the author's note as well! I think the book is 4 star quality for YA but I added a star for the author's note alone.
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