Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guant�namo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guant�namo. At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned.

Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Guant�namo Bay, where he spent the next 14 years as Detainee #441. Don't Forget Us Here tells two coming-of-age stories in parallel: a makeshift island outpost becoming the world's most notorious prison and an innocent young man emerging from its darkness. Arriving as a stubborn teenager, Mansoor survived the camp's infamous interrogation program and became a feared and hardened resistance fighter leading prison riots and hunger strikes.

With time though, he grew into the man nicknamed Smiley Troublemaker a student, writer, advocate, and historian. While at Guant�namo, he wrote a series of manuscripts he sent as letters to his attorneys, which he then transformed into this vital chronicle, in collaboration with award-winning writer Antonio Aiello. With unexpected warmth and empathy, Mansoor unwinds a narrative of fighting for hope and survival in unimaginable circumstances, illuminating the limitlessness of the human spirit.

And through his own story, he also tells Guant�namo's story, offering an unprecedented window into one of the most secretive places on earth and the people--detainees and guards alike--who lived there with him. Twenty years after 9/11, Guant�namo remains open, and at a moment of due reckoning, Mansoor Adayfi helps us understand what actually happened there--both the horror and the beauty--a stunning record of an experience we cannot afford to forget.