
Press Release
Source: Starbucks
Riveting True Story of Hope and Redemption A Long Way Gone is Next Starbucks Featured BookThursday January 11, 8:01 am ET
Compelling, Eye-Opening Memoir is a Rare, First-Person Account of a Child Soldier in War-Torn Africa
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070111/20070111005265.html?.v=1
Also see the New York Times Magazine Jan 14 2007 edition for a longer excerpt of Beah’s book. From a literary perspective I think it would be really interesting to compare Nigerian author Uzodinma Iweala’s “Beasts of no nation” a fictional representation of the child soldier experience to Ishmeal Beah’s autobiographical ” A long way gone”. I am really looking forward to this book and encourage eveyone to get a copy 🙂
Supporting Salone and Sierra Leoneans all the way!!!!!