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elise_lh 's review for:
American War
by Omar El Akkad
Where American War succeeds in writing, in lacks severely in substance. The prose is hauntingly beautiful and it is a story that will likely stay with me. However, there is something missing from the heart of this book. Repeatedly, I couldn’t help but ask why? It was baffling to me as to why El Akkad chose to essentially rewrite the 1861 American Civil War but set in the future with climate change as a catalyst and probably the most tactless- devoid of any mention of racism and for the most part, race. I could not help but recoil from the obvious (and at times, forced) parallels between the Free Southern State and the Rebels with the Confederacy.