WOW! What an amazing book. The author created characters and voices to love and hate and embodied the disturbing reality of political prisoners not only in Burma/Myanmar, but in similar countries the world over.
As dysfunctional as my country's political and prison systems are, I am still incredibly lucky and proud to be an American. We too often take for granted the amazing freedoms that the founding fathers had the foresight to take PEN and PAPER and create the Bill of Rights. Thank you.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."