Gulf

By Robert Westall

Subjects: Children's literature, Mentally ill, fiction, Siblings, fiction, Brothers, War, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Mental illness, Dreams, Fiction, Children's fiction, War, Juvenile fiction, Persian Gulf War, 1991

Description: Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother's struggle with an apparent mental illness or "mystery of nature" which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi.