American War

After the Second Civil War, America is a fractured place. Oil is outlawed, many coastlines are permanently flooded and underwater, and Sarat, even at a young age, knows not to trust anyone. She grows up in Camp Patience, a camp for displaced families due to the war, and despite all her misgivings, falls under the spell of a mysterious mentor who may or may not have good intentions for Sarat. This is a harrowing look at what war and division can do to an individual and a whole ---- Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. 2074. America's future is Civil War. Sarat's reality is survival. They took her father, they took her home, they told her lies . . . She didn't start this war, but she'll end it. Omar El Akkad’s powerful debut novel imagines a dystopian future: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague and one family caught deep in the middle. In _American War_, we’re asked to consider what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons against itself.