Book Review: Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts From the World's Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most ImfamousPrison

by Sarah Mirk (741.5 Mir)

 

If you have a short amount of time to learn U.S. history of Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Voices is a solid primer. Most of the comics collected here focus on the time we spent detaining, torturing, and interrogating people after 9/11. There is a brief introduction about when we started using the land, as well as a few details about Cuba trying to encourage us to leave. I would definitely recommend this to high school students and millennials alike. It is a quick read for the many of us who so quickly forget our history or were never properly taught it in the first place. Because the prison is not yet closed, it has reminded me to pay closer attention to the items in the news, even if they feel distant. Some of the interviews of former military involved with the base have reminded me that there are always ways we can try to counteract atrocities being done in our names.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld, Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman or Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.]

[ Guantanamo Voices page on the official Sarah Mirk web site ]

 

Recommended by Naomi S.
Eiseley Branch Library

 

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