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...hears young Agu, whose family is caught in the grip of a civil war that strikes an undefined West African country. Among flames and cries, the young boy, protagonist of the debut novel of Uzodinma Iweala ’04, “Beasts of No Nation,” naively runs towards a group of rebels dressed in rags. Caught in a trap of destiny, he has to choose between a brutal death or a brutal life. He chooses life and finds himself metamorphosed into one of those thousands of child soldiers dressed in rags, carrying guns heavier than...
Here a child-soldier’s tale is not just told but felt, through the voice of Agu himself, which remains spontaneous and somewhat innocent while he tells of his transformation from the boy who sees his father brutally murdered to the beast who “bring[s] the machete up and down and up and down hearing KPWUDA KPWUDA every time and seeing just pink...
...omnipresent onomatopoeias, portraying the violence of the war as well as the confusion in the boy’s mind. Throughout the story, Agu is torn between wanting to be a “good soldier” and not wanting to be a “bad boy...
...Savage is known to readers of the New York Times as the (non-biological) father of a seven-year-old boy and as a writer who tugs at heartstrings with his occasional freelance articles on gay adoption. He is also known to readers of his internationally-syndicated sex column, “Savage Love,” as an unimaginably lewd version of Dear Abby. One could say—at the risk of sending eyes rolling—that Savage swings both ways...
This is what she did not say: that perhaps her boy had holstered a gun, tried to rob a man or two. It was on the books. But none of that mattered, not in New Orleans...