Gbarplehtroyah: A Generation Stolen
BY ALLEN MOMBO HAYES
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A young Liberian boy is raised by his grandparents in a close community of family, faith, and tradition. Then political upheaval, military coups, and civil war tear his country apart, pulling him into a world of death, displacement, fear, and impossible choices.
The book bears witness to massacres, persecution, the destruction of whole communities, and the scars left on a generation.
His journey carries him to the United States and into the Marine Corps, where he serves in Iraq and Afghanistan and sees war again through new eyes. Through personal tragedy and the struggle to hold two cultures and two identities, he finds purpose, honor, and hope.
A memoir of war, family, faith, immigration, military service, loss, and redemption.
Family, faith, and tradition in the home of his grandparents.
Coups, violence, and displacement that marked a generation.
Building a future while holding two cultures and two identities.
Deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the cost of returning to war.
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