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paigelindsay89 's review for:
American War
by Omar El Akkad
The writing of this was beautiful. It's one of those stories that sounds good out loud. The story here, America - in the midst of it's second civil war - north against south - fighting over the ban of fossil fuels in an America that has lost it's coasts to the sea - was all too easy to imagine. The story follows a family affected by war - a child growing up a refugee in her own country. Its a striking look into a not to unimaginable future America.
I finished this on my flight home and had to hold back tears while my heart raced for last 100 pages. It was also the only book that I've ever immediately gone back and re-read the prologue when I finished the book and was still compelled.
I finished this on my flight home and had to hold back tears while my heart raced for last 100 pages. It was also the only book that I've ever immediately gone back and re-read the prologue when I finished the book and was still compelled.