04101cam a2200817 4500 335499886 TxAuBib 20171213120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780451493590 0451493591 B01LXK1HBB Amazon 845f68ea-bb61-4d13-a877-55009c7cce8e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 543957 2989354 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib El Akkad, Omar. American War [Libby eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1267kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1267kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. climate change fiction. gifts for book lovers. speculative fiction. best books of 2017. dystopian fiction. fathers day books. fathers day gifts. Science Fiction. global politics. political books. best books 2017. Global Warming. Climate change. radicalization. Coming of age. refugee camps. books for dad. Fossil Fuels. near future. Environment. fathers day. resistance. Terrorism. Civil War. dad books. Military. Thriller. refugees. violence. dystopia. Fiction. radical. family. plague. sci fi. energy. drones. cli-fi. South. War. HTML:<b>"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in <i>The Road,</i> and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in <i>The Plot Against America.</i> . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel, <i>American War,</i> is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series <i>The Hunger Games</i> and <i>Divergent."</i></b><br /> <b>—Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br /> 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.<br /> 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, 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. Literature. Fantasy. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-12-13 22:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=845f68ea-bb61-4d13-a877-55009c7cce8e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=845f68ea-bb61-4d13-a877-55009c7cce8e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=845f68ea-bb61-4d13-a877-55009c7cce8e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)