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A review by themaddiehatter
Guantanamo Voices: An Anthology: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk, Omar El Akkad
5.0
“Guantanamo Voices”, by Sarah Mirk, is one of those books that I have a hard time writing my thoughts about because I am still full of feelings after having finished it. Feelings of anger, of frustration, of confusion. This is an important graphic novel, that sheds light on a topic that most people probably feel know more about than they actually do.
“Guantanamo Voices”, is a graphic novel about what happened in Guantanamo Bay since the prison opened up to present time from the perspective of nine people whose lives were connected to the prison, either by having been imprisoned there or worked in connection to the prison. The author’s trip and experience visiting Guantanamo Bay while researching this graphic novel is also documented in two chapters.. Each of the eleven chapters is illustrated by a different illustrator, so there isn’t one specific style throughout. Personally I care a lot about the art and illustrations in graphic novels, but this one was a case where I was so outraged by what I was reading that I couldn’t really focus on the aesthetics.
This is a very informative graphic novel and I believe anyone that has an interest in US and foreign policies would find it interesting. I hope a lot of people, especially from the US and the Western World, will read this. I am sure that if they do, they will find that they know very little about the topic of Guantanamo Bay, whether because information was just kept away and they never learnt about it or because they heard about it and simply looked the other way.
Thank you to NetGalley and Abrams ComicArts for the copy in exchange for my honest review.
“Guantanamo Voices”, is a graphic novel about what happened in Guantanamo Bay since the prison opened up to present time from the perspective of nine people whose lives were connected to the prison, either by having been imprisoned there or worked in connection to the prison. The author’s trip and experience visiting Guantanamo Bay while researching this graphic novel is also documented in two chapters.. Each of the eleven chapters is illustrated by a different illustrator, so there isn’t one specific style throughout. Personally I care a lot about the art and illustrations in graphic novels, but this one was a case where I was so outraged by what I was reading that I couldn’t really focus on the aesthetics.
This is a very informative graphic novel and I believe anyone that has an interest in US and foreign policies would find it interesting. I hope a lot of people, especially from the US and the Western World, will read this. I am sure that if they do, they will find that they know very little about the topic of Guantanamo Bay, whether because information was just kept away and they never learnt about it or because they heard about it and simply looked the other way.
Thank you to NetGalley and Abrams ComicArts for the copy in exchange for my honest review.