Tuesday, March 06, 2007

A Long Way Gone

Written by: Ishmael Beah
Contributed by: Sonja

2 comments:

hmb said...

oh no! i had to pass this one on without reading it! bummer!

wren said...

I did too... but now I wish I hadn't. Check this out:

http://www.slate.com/id/2185928/

Pretty reputable magazine--one of the girls in my program is going to be published in it this summer.

Memoirs like this fall under the category of "creative nonfiction," which I'm studying tons of right now. Recently, several have been exposed as having less truth than they purport to have... it's such an interesting thing to study.