Sunday, June 25, 2017

Pg. 69: Keely Hutton's "Soldier Boy"

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Soldier Boy by Keely Hutton.

About the book, from the publisher:
Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda’s decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming of escape.

The story continues twenty years later, with a fictionalized character named Samuel, representative of the thousands of child soldiers Ricky eventually helped rehabilitate as founder of the internationally acclaimed charity Friends of Orphans.

Working closely with Ricky himself, debut author Keely Hutton has written an eye-opening book about a boy’s unbreakable spirit and indomitable courage in the face of unimaginable horror.
Visit Keely Hutton's website.

The Page 69 Test: Soldier Boy.

--Marshal Zeringue