ksoanes 's review for:

American War by Omar El Akkad
4.0

This was engrossing and terrifying at the same time. While the suicide bombings, displacement into camps, and radicalization point to what’s happening in the Middle East, reading this 2 years into the Trump administration this feels like completely plausible future US History. In many ways, it feels like it has already started. Did I get how Sarat ended up the way she did? Absolutely. Do I think it can happen in the US? Absolutely and that is terrifying.