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Guantanamo Voices
Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison | Sarah Mirk
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An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever. In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantnamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held thereand forty inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime. In Guantnamo Voices, journalist Sarah Mirk and her team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped and affected by the prison, including former prisoners, lawyers, social workers, and service members. This collection of illustrated interviews explores the history of Guantnamo and the world post-9/11, presenting this complicated partisan issue through a new lens. These stories are shocking, essential, haunting, thought-provoking. This book should be required reading for all earthlings. The Iowa Review This anthology disturbs and illuminates in equal measure. Publishers Weekly Editor Mirk presents an extraordinary chronicle of the notorious prison, featuring first-person accounts by prisoners, guards, and other constituents that demonstrate the facilitys cruel reputation. . . . An eye-opening, damning indictment of one of Americas worst trespasses that continues to this day. Kirkus Reviews
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Reminder of how terrible these men have always been.

The book is good, though! An engaging history of Guantanamo in graphic anthology format. Recommended.

TheBookHippie This and so much more 😵‍💫 3mo
Lauredhel @TheBookHippie you got that right. One tiny smidgen of possible consequences for only one of them today, and no prospect of actual justice in the foreseeable 3mo
TheBookHippie @Lauredhel Word. 💯 3mo
Christine Oh cool, I am extra interested in checking this out after listening to the latest season of Serial! 3mo
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