But she takes it one step further, imagining a hate-filled, tweeting President who whips up fear against the Other to gain popular support, eliminate enemies, and impose a repressive regime with book burnings, curfews, and soldiers patrolling the streets. Like Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment addresses Islamophobia and the stereotyping and demonization of Muslim Americans. Two years into the new administration, with its Muslim travel ban and family separations and mass detentions along the southern border of the United States, Samira Ahmed’s Internment has captured the cultural zeitgeist.Īlthough Internment is classified as dystopian, set in the near future rather than the present like The Hate U Give, Ahmed, author of the acclaimed contemporary novel Love, Hate & Other Filters, draws on both historical events and current trends. Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give - a testimonial novel that captured killings of unarmed Black teenagers and the rise of Black Lives Matter - was one of them. An American Story of Oppression and Resistance: Samira Ahmed’s Internmentįrom time to time, we see new YA novels that everyone seems to be reading and discussing.
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