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Perera, Anna

Guantanamo Boy

363 pp. | Whitman | September, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8075-3077-1 $17.99
(4) YA Six months after 9/11, fifteen-year old Brit Khalid is apprehended as an enemy combatant while vacationing in Pakistan. Held at Guantánamo Bay for two years before his parents secure his release, Khalid undergoes beatings and torture while trying to understand how he ended up there. While the story is compelling and the questions it raises important, the book suffers from stilted prose and slow pacing. Timeline.
Reviewer: David Elzey

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