Don’t Forget Us Here

This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.

• "In this landmark work, Mansoor Adayfi gives us a guided tour through the nightmarish landscape of Guantánamo. He tells a tale of both casual cruelty and organized sadism that should make every American politician redden with shame. But this memoir offers much more than just a gruesome portrait of a bureaucracy gone berserk, for it describes the fierce resistance and ultimate redemption of an innocent Yemeni man consigned to a hellish prison. Let us hope that Don't Forget Us Here will spark a long overdue reckoning with the horrors of Guantánamo and its many victims."
  Ron Chernow, former president of PEN America and bestselling author of Grant and Hamilton
• "This is a wholly enthralling, relentlessly enraging, and unexpectedly funny book about one man caught in the absurdist world of the War on Terror. With his mordant wit and astonishing perseverance, Mansoor is impossible not to root for. This is a contemporary Unbroken with vital lessons for the American military-intelligence complex, exposing how an ostensibly moral nation becomes a state sponsor of torture."
  Dave Eggers, Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
• "An incredible story! I am grateful to this joyously heartbreaking book for reminding me of what it means to be not just human, but humane."
   
  Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
• "Powerful…An important record of prisoner mistreatment as a national reckoning over Guantánamo continues to loom."
  Kirkus (starred review)
• "Searing...This poignant testament strikes a devastating chord."
  Publishers Weekly
• "Mansoor’s plight is unfathomable, but his strength most certainly is enviable. His powerful, unforgettable story is a must read in every way."
  Booklist
• "A profoundly moving and immensely important tribute to the intelligence, resilience, and humanity with which its author, Mansoor Adayfi, survived fourteen years as a detainee in the notorious Guantanamo prison camp."
  Francine Prose, bestselling author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
• "After years of hearing and reading only the ‘official’ version of his story, as told by his captors, at last Mansoor himself speaks. Speaking at all after such experiences, which included 14 years of the most serious human rights violations and daily humiliations designed to break the human spirit, is a victory. Speaking as Mansoor does here, of the struggle of Guantánamo's prisoners to assert their humanity, turns the official story about these men on its head, and shows Guantánamo for what it is: a terrible shame and a pointless failure."
  Mohamedou Ould Slahi, bestselling author of Guantánamo Diary
• "A window of stunning humanity into a place meant to be kept forever secret."
   
   
  Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications and author of A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
• "A blistering, eloquent indictment of Guantánamo. Mansoor Adayfi vividly describes the abuses committed there and he writes powerfully about the decade and half he spent there."
  Peter Bergen, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden and The Longest War
• "Don’t Forget Us Here may be one of the most shocking books you’ll ever read, but not for the reasons you might expect. What’s most shocking about this extraordinary book is Adayfi’s enormous capacity to resist his captors with uncommon creativity, dignity, and even humor."
  Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
• “A riveting, illuminating account of Guantánamo from a Muslim perspective.”
  Jonathan Hansen, author of Guantánamo: An American History