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A review by saracat
Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk
5.0
First, I want to thank NetGalley and Abrams ComicArts for making this ARC available for me to read and review.
The one thing that was a negative to me about reading this ARC was that the image quality was rather poor so it took a lot of effort to make out the text on each page; however, I assume that the published version will have excellent image resolution.
However, despite that issue, the information and human stories conveyed in these pages drew me in enough that I read every page. Part of what drew me to want to read this book was the fact that not too long ago the podcast RadioLab did a 6 episode series on one of the people held at Guantanamo: Abdul Latif Nasser (who is actually mentioned in this book as well).
This is by no means a comprehensive volume about people who are connected to Guantanamo for the time they have spent there - including those who only visited, worked there, as well as those held there. But, it is a topic that feels so big that it can be hard to know where to begin. And this is a great book to begin with. The illustrations do a lot to help convey more than sometimes words can do by themselves. This includes the decision to have each person's story illustrated by a different artist. Every person has their own voice and this change in artistic style from story to story helps the reader make the shift to a new voice,
Content Warning: lots of mentions of torture, though it doesn't go into very specific details
The one thing that was a negative to me about reading this ARC was that the image quality was rather poor so it took a lot of effort to make out the text on each page; however, I assume that the published version will have excellent image resolution.
However, despite that issue, the information and human stories conveyed in these pages drew me in enough that I read every page. Part of what drew me to want to read this book was the fact that not too long ago the podcast RadioLab did a 6 episode series on one of the people held at Guantanamo: Abdul Latif Nasser (who is actually mentioned in this book as well).
This is by no means a comprehensive volume about people who are connected to Guantanamo for the time they have spent there - including those who only visited, worked there, as well as those held there. But, it is a topic that feels so big that it can be hard to know where to begin. And this is a great book to begin with. The illustrations do a lot to help convey more than sometimes words can do by themselves. This includes the decision to have each person's story illustrated by a different artist. Every person has their own voice and this change in artistic style from story to story helps the reader make the shift to a new voice,
Content Warning: lots of mentions of torture, though it doesn't go into very specific details