So I wake up today to the news that #45 in 2020 will drastically cut Social Security Medicare, and Medicaid. The very things keeping a roof over my head, and food on my table.
In light of that here's a review of "Interment".
This taking place in the 2030's after the Dems blow the next two national elections. ...which clearly they will in 2020 for sure.
In a future dystopian United States, an Indian-American teenager named Layla Amin and her fellow Muslim Americans are slowly being stripped of their civil rights. Under the new president’s “Exclusion Laws,” there are strictly enforced curfews for Muslim households and firing Muslims from government jobs is legal. But it is still a horrific shock when Layla’s family is forced to leave their California home for Camp Mobius, a desert internment center.
There, Layla is torn between her parents’ commitment to safe compliance and her need to vent her fury at being unreasonably detained. She finds a group of like-minded young people, and they channel their rage into secret acts of resistance, some of which result in tragedy. Layla is left asking why her community was denied the privilege Americans are promised, and pondering the cost of freedom.
This raw portrait of a young activist coming into her own is not subtle, but it’s not meant to be. Layla deliberately draws direct comparisons between Mobius and Manzanar, the World War II Japanese-American internment camp. And it’s not hard to guess the inspiration for the novel’s political leaders, who praise Nazi sympathizers as “very fine people.”
These signposts compel readers to acknowledge the very real fear experienced by many Muslim Americans and other marginalized groups at this pivotal present moment. Though Layla angrily asserts, “Forgetting is in the American grain,” her near-future story serves as a potent and impassioned reminder of what American nationalism led to in our not so distant past.
381 pp. Little, Brown.
381 pp. Little, Brown.
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