Full name: American War: A novel

Author: Omar El Akkad Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Science fiction, Dystopia, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780451493583 0451493583

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war - part of the Miraculous Generation - now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others. Similar books: Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess The Resisters by Gish Jen The Olive Readers by Christine Aziz Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard 1985 by Anthony Burgess The Warehouse by Rob Hart Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch The Ice People by Maggie Gee Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Severance by Ling Ma Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton The Wall by John Lanchester A Friend of the Earth by T. Coraghessan Boyle When the English Fall by David Williams