American war : a novel /
El Akkad, Omar, 1982-
American war : a novel / Omar El Akkad. - First edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. - 333 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. Even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. 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 not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. 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.
9780451493583 (hardback) 0451493583 (hardback)
2016042308
Young women--United States--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / War & Military.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Science fiction.
War fiction.
PS3605 .L12 / A44 2017
813/.6
American war : a novel / Omar El Akkad. - First edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. - 333 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. Even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. 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 not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. 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.
9780451493583 (hardback) 0451493583 (hardback)
2016042308
Young women--United States--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / War & Military.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Science fiction.
War fiction.
PS3605 .L12 / A44 2017
813/.6