Ishmael Beah Books in Order

Ishmael Beah recounts fleeing rebel attacks as a child during Sierra Leone’s civil war and his subsequent life as a soldier. The memoir follows the violence that reshaped his childhood and his struggle to recover through rehabilitation and a new life.

Returning to their ruined Sierra Leonean hometown after civil war, teachers Benjamin and Bockarie attempt to rebuild a community. Hunger, renewed violence, and a foreign mining company’s destructive presence threaten their efforts to restore stability and preserve what remains of village life.

Five displaced young people create a makeshift household inside an abandoned airplane. As Elimane takes work from a mysterious patron and Khoudi becomes attracted to the lives of the privileged, new opportunities threaten the fragile family they have built to survive.