From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel

The critically acclaimed debut from Alex Gilvarry, a darkly comic love letter to New York, told through the eyes of Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, glamour junkie, Guantanamo detainee.

Alex Gilvarry’s widely acclaimed first novel is the story of designer Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, New York glamour junkie, Guantanamo detainee. Locked away indefinitely and accused of being linked to a terrorist plot, Boy prepares for the tribunal of his life with this intimate confession, a dazzling swirl of soirees, runways, and hipster romance that charts one small man’s undying love for New York City and his pursuit of the big American dream-even as the present nightmare of detainment chisels away at his vital wit and chutzpah.

A New York Times Editor’s Choice, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant unveils two of America’s most illusory realms-high fashion and Homeland Security-in a funny, wise, and beguiling, and Kafkaesque tale for our strange times.