Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp’s Director and his guards.
Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.
Internment by Samira Ahmed
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Internment started out pretty good but then it didn’t live up to what I was hoping for. This story is about a Muslim American family taken from their home forced to live in a guarded camp with other Muslim families. Teenager Layla wants her life back and feels she should help the other families that are locked away.
This story did have a real-world feel to it but towards the middle and the end not so much. Layla was doing things that in the real world she would have gotten killed for. Then she seemed so focused on getting to her boyfriend. In a story like this that is the last thing, I would think about. Yes, Layla contacted her boyfriend to him what was going on but every few pages she seemed that’s all she cared about instead of trying to follow the rules so she or her parents won’t get killed.
This story did have some scary themes to it, but I guess I’m thinking of things that are in 2020 when hundreds of thousands of families got separated at the border and put into cages. Today this still hurts me!!
Overall this was an okay story not my favorite. It took me a very long time to finish it. I really wasn’t interested at a certain point anymore. But I can say the audiobook was good I did like the narrator. But I’m glad I finished it I don’t think I’ll be re-reading this anytime soon.