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War Brothers: The Graphic Novel (2013)

by Sharon E. McKay(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1554514886 (ISBN13: 9781554514885)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Annick Press

review 1: This is a graphic novel based on events in Uganda with Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army. The authors state that everything in the story has happened and they put the events into fiction story form. It is of course, a horrifying story. And yet, it is one of success for some characters, in the form of recovery from trauma and their attempts to help others. This book is one of those attempts at getting the story out. I don't suppose I can say I enjoyed a book about such a horrific topic, but some of the colored illustrations were certainly evocative of the beauty of Uganda. Four stars.
review 2: This is a barely fictionalized account of one boy's experience being "recruited" into Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda in the early 2000... mores. "Recruited," in this case, means kidnapped, starved, beaten, and broken, then taught to hate oneself as an irredeemable monster by being forced to kill innocent people to survive--when, for example, after first being taken and forced to march for days with no food, one of the boys is too weak to continue, three of his friends are told to beat him to death with logs or have their arms chopped off with machetes. It's a gruesome tale made all the more horrific by its truth. Powerful images relate the awful string of events. It's a quick read, but a dense and important one considering this is not a lesson from history, but an ongoing occurrence in our real world. less

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