In a logical, clear-thinking, pre-911 world Boy Hernandez would be madly filling orders with his newly established women’s fashion line, (B)oy for Bergdorf-Goodman, Bloomingdale’s and other trend setting hotspots. But in this post-911 world of fast and at times, sloppy security work, Boy’s been thrown into Gitmo for allegedly assisting terrorists by funneling money through his clothing design studio. HA!
This book follows the narrator, a young male adolescent, who is shanghaied into an army fighting in a civil war somewhere in Africa. The language of the book is what is most arresting to me, as the story is plainly told, but in an absolutely unique style.