Situations in which we are turned into weapons, not only the weaponization of children, but of their physical bodies. Questions of ethics and technology are explored. Seeing the war from both sides, are our actions truly so different? The nightmares that keep us awake at night, the screams and shadows that haunt our waking moments. We are asked about the context of our actions. What is the truth in war? It isn’t as concrete as we think, malleable in warm hands and shadowed in the daylight. Their lives, even while they are just individuals, play out across screens and distance. War Girls examines not only their experiences, but also their relationship, their sisterhood, and their love. Told from the perspectives of Ify and Onyii, the two main characters, War Girls is a story that examines these two girl’s lives. That twists the metal pulsing underneath our skin.įrom the beginning I fell in love with the science fiction elements. A conflict over minerals, over the ground they walk on, turns into something more – a rhetoric that pits neighbors against each other. Told over a span of years, Onyebuchi refuses to give us easy answers about guilt, revenge, and peace. Built on the historical conflict of the Nigerian Civil War, War Girls is a powerful book that refuses to let us walk away. The children who look up to the sky and see the shadows of drones. War Girls is, unsurprisingly, a story about war.
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