The barbarism that ensues is all the more awful because we know the rivers and the cities. has fractured again into North and South. In a world seared and flooded by global warming, the U.S. Highly recommended." -James Coan, Library Journal (starred review) "Omar El Akkad has created an American future that is both terrifying and plausible. Well written, inventive, and engaging, this relentlessly dark tale introduces a fascinating character. Part family chronicle, part apocalyptic fable, American War is a vivid narrative of a country collapsing in on itself." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gripping and frightening. American War is a gripping, unsparing, and essential novel for dangerously contentious times." -Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) "Terrifyingly plausible. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven "El Akkad has created a brilliantly well-crafted, profoundly shattering saga of one family's suffering in a world of brutal power struggles, terrorism, ignorance, and vengeance. El Akkad's story of a family caught up in the collapse of an empire is as harrowing as it is brilliant, and has an air of terrible relevance in these partisan times." -Emily St. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be.
When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074.
Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle-a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America.
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