Unveiling two of America"s most illusory realmsa??high fashion and Homeland Securitya??Alex Gilvarry"s widely acclaimed first novel is the story of designer Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, New York glamour junkie, GuantA?namo 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 pursuit of the big American dreama??even as the present nightmare of detainment chisels away at his vital wit and chutzpah. From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant is funny, wise, and beguiling, a Kafkaesque tale for our strange times.