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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier New York City, 1998 Summary

  • Ishmael begins with a little anecdote about his high school friends who suspect that he might not be telling all there is to know about why he left Sierra Leone.
  • Yeah, there was a war and he saw people running around with guns and shooting each other, but there's a little more to it than that.
  • Maybe he'll tell them about it…sometime.