6 books recommended by novelist Ishmael Beah

The UNICEF ambassador recommends works by Edwidge Danticat, Hisham Matar, and more

Ishmael Beah.
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Novelist and UNICEF ambassador Ishmael Beah is the author of A Long Way Gone, a memoir about serving as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In his new novel, Little Family, five young people create a home in the fuselage of a downed plane.

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (1980).

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