Among the books burned, are Ali Amin's poetry collections Layla, therefore, has an immediate emotional response to. The book burning illustrates how the government has overtaken the minds of its people, systematically working to eliminate the identities and words of millions of its citizens. The election of a fascist president leads to a wave of Islamophobia, which infects the spirits of the nation. The book burning the community stages at the start of the novel symbolizes erasure of minority peoples, and dissenting voices. The theft not only keeps her from communicating with David, but illustrates the governmental work to strip Muslim American citizens of their voices, agency, and connection to the world beyond their coming imprisonment in Camp Mobius. When the Exclusion Officers storm her home at the start of the novel, they seize her telephone. Layla's phone symbolizes freedom of speech. Set in a horrifying 15 minutes in the future United States, the book follows 17-year-old Layla Amin as she is forced into an internment camp for Muslim.
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