The Horn Book Guide

OLDER FICTION

Ahmed, Samira

Internment

387 pp. | Little | March, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-0-316-52269-4 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-316-52266-3

(2) YA In a near-future dystopian world, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin, a Muslim, is ripped from her home and sent to a desert camp by a racist, Islamophobic regime. Layla and others resist, but freedom may come at the cost of lives. The line between speculative fiction and contemporary realism has never been fuzzier than in this emotionally authentic, devastatingly intimate, startlingly concrete portrait of democratic impotence and governmental oppression.

Reviewer: Anastasia M. Collins | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2019