“The people united will never be defeated!”
This will be a mini-review as I read this book quite a while ago and can't find the original review I did for it. This review is based fully on my memory of what I read over 7 months ago. 

Layla and her family as well as other Muslims end up being forced into an internment camp. These camps reminded me a lot of the ones that Japanese Americans were put into during WWII. The reasons why they went and the way they are treated are reminiscent of what happened to the Japanese Americans as well. There of course is a more modern spin on it as well as different prejudice happening to them. 

Overall this book is a harder read. It is one that deals with a situation that is terrifying to read about because we know how easy it can be for this to happen again. History repeats itself and because of that, we have to learn and do better than what happened previously. 
Having said that though let's get to Layla and her story. Layla has technology on her side and a boyfriend as well as friends, and eventually people on the inside who want to help and stop the situation from going further. The situation she is in though is extremely dangerous especially with how the director acts and treats the people in the internment camp as well as the people on the outside who scream the loudest doing everything they can to make it all seem okay. However, Layla and others who are on the outside that don't want the internment camps to happen and don't believe that they should be a thing are doing what needs to be done to put a stop to it. This means showing the realities of the internment camp, with video footage of the inside as well as other activism happening on the outside as well. Layla and the other young people are the ones that are mostly doing this type of activism which is completely understandable considering how dangerous it is and what is at stake when it comes to these types of situations. The parents feel like they must go along in order to keep everyone alive, while the kids are more reckless. The reason I'm mentioning this is that we see this in some other books and question it, but in this book, it makes perfect sense because of how realistic the situation is and how reminiscent of the past it is to me while I was reading it.
I highly recommend this book to everyone to read because it's a great reminder of what could happen if we don't stop racist acts from happening and continuing to progress. 


"Unless we know our history, we’re doomed to repeat it? Never forget? Isn’t that the lesson? But we always forget. Forgetting is in the American grain."