5/22/2023 0 Comments Samira ahmed internment![]() ![]() ![]() The government is beginning a program of relocating Muslim Americans to internment facilities, supposedly for the safety of the country. That changes in a single night when government agents come to the Amin house and tell them they have ten minutes to gather what things they can. Aware that since the election of a far-right president the country has begun to target Muslim Americans for specific scrutiny, Layla believes that this public policy is just heated rhetoric. Except for nights when Layla slips out after curfew to meet her boyfriend David, Layla is an exemplary teenager. Her father is a college literature professor and a respected poet her mother is a chiropractor. The study guide will use 2019 Hachette Book Group paperback.Īt 17, Layla Amin is a typical high school teenager. Ahmed, a Muslim American born in India, cited the importance of using the genre of Young Adult fiction to introduce her readers to such real-world problems and, more importantly, to show how young people must be the ones to lead the resistance to racism. ![]() ![]() Told through the eyes of a spirited teenager named Layla Amin, whose family is sent to an internment facility in the arid mountains of central California, the novel examines the impact of the government’s initiative and how a country long defined by its celebration of freedom and diversity can nevertheless imprison innocent Americans, based solely on the racist logic of scapegoating and hate-mongering. ![]()
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