Except for nights when Layla slips out after curfew to meet her boyfriend David, Layla is an exemplary teenager. Her father is a college literature professor and a respected poet her mother is a chiropractor. The study guide will use 2019 Hachette Book Group paperback.Īt 17, Layla Amin is a typical high school teenager. Ahmed, a Muslim American born in India, cited the importance of using the genre of Young Adult fiction to introduce her readers to such real-world problems and, more importantly, to show how young people must be the ones to lead the resistance to racism. Told through the eyes of a spirited teenager named Layla Amin, whose family is sent to an internment facility in the arid mountains of central California, the novel examines the impact of the government’s initiative and how a country long defined by its celebration of freedom and diversity can nevertheless imprison innocent Americans, based solely on the racist logic of scapegoating and hate-mongering.
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