Somehow she is only one in the camp who comes up with ideas to do something.Except when she is super angry and has ALL THE FEELINGS and is angry at everyone.Has a boyfriend who she loves so very, very much that she can’t think about anything else.The book starts out well.Â She captures the fear and suspicion rampant in the main characters community.Â She makes a logical case for how the United States would start to round up Muslims.Â The early scene where the family is taken out of their house is very realistic and because of that it is very scary.Īfter they get to the internment camp though, the whole story starts to fall apart.Â I think a lot of the problem in my reading of this is that this is a YA book that is trying to celebrate the power of young people to make a difference.Â I understand that because of the category it is going to be focused more on action than character development but these characters are particularly weak.Â Â The main character: I was really looking forward to reading this book.Â I preordered it as soon as I heard about it.Â I was interested in a book about Muslim internment from a Muslim author. Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today. 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. 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.

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