Unusual Normality - Ishmael Beah

“All I had come to know since I was 11 was how to survive, I didn't know how to live. ”

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Unusual Normality

by Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah comes to New York as a teenager after years of fighting as a child soldier in Sierra Leone and gets a second chance at childhood.

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