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rjandolina 's review for:
American War
by Omar El Akkad
As a concept I really enjoyed the vision and commentary on where our current climate actions could be taking us. I'm a sucker for alternate history/dystopias/world building and combined with the current political moment this was a satisfying read.
One major component did bother me in the context of gaming out a nearish future American civil conflict in the sense that race was mostly paved over, especially given the majority of protagonists were people of color.
This is probably a "me" problem in the sense that I should relax and suspend belief for fiction's sake but a book covering another conflict between the American North and South without that dynamic seems to leave quite a big elephant in the room.
One major component did bother me in the context of gaming out a nearish future American civil conflict in the sense that race was mostly paved over, especially given the majority of protagonists were people of color.
This is probably a "me" problem in the sense that I should relax and suspend belief for fiction's sake but a book covering another conflict between the American North and South without that dynamic seems to leave quite a big elephant in the room.