Rachel Baack
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Unusual Normality
Summary: After surviving a civil war in Sierra Leone in which he lost his family and was subsequently forced to fight as a child soldier, Ishmael Beah was adopted and moved to New York City at seventeen. In this short story, he recounts what it was like to adjust to his new life with peers whose childhoods were vastly different from his.
Summary: After surviving a civil war in Sierra Leone in which he lost his family and was subsequently forced to fight as a child soldier, Ishmael Beah was adopted and moved to New York City at seventeen. In this short story, he recounts what it was like to adjust to his new life with peers whose childhoods were vastly different from his.