You need to be reading this. It was really intense and I had to stop reading a couple of times (to cry, yes) but I also didn’t want to put it down at the same time.

Slahi doesn’t actually go into detail about any of the torture he’s experienced if that’s putting anybody off. Rather it focuses on the relentless and repetitive interrogations he’s had to go through (and is still going through) for over 10 years in GTMO.

Not that it’s the purpose of the book and that definitely shouldn’t be the only takeaway from the book but it puts your own life into so much perspective.

Slahi still has so much humanity, compassion and understanding for his torturers and Americans in general. I know I wouldn’t have even an ounce of that capacity to be so forgiving.