W. Ross Macdonald School Library

American War /

by El Akkad, Omar, Edition statement:Paperback edition. Published by : McClelland & Stewart, (Toronto : ) Physical details: 413 pages ; 21 cm ISBN:9780771009419.
Subject(s): Young women -- United States -- Fiction. | Civil war -- United States -- Fiction. | Fossil fuels -- Political aspects -- Fiction. | Atrocities -- Fiction. | Environmental disasters -- Fiction. | Biological warfare -- Fiction. | Terrorism -- Fiction. | Futurism -- Fiction. | Drone aircraft -- Fiction. | Internally displaced persons -- Fiction. | Louisiana -- Fiction. | FICTION / Dystopian. | Authors, Canadian. | Canadian fiction.
Year: 2017 Item type: Print
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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.

Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 2018

Andrew Carnegie Medal nominee, 2018

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