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American War
by Omar El Akkad
I love a dystopian novel snd this book is one of the best I’ve read
It’s premise is that due to extreme climate change there has been a break down in civilisation with southern USA states breaking away from northern with a resulting endless civil war
The reality of climate change makes the book compelling reading .The author has experience of interviewing people in refuge camps across the world and terrorists in guatemano bay .This is very obvious in the sections set in the camps and prisons of the story and really add an extra layer of complexity to the story
I loved the way the book is split between descriptions of the life of the narrator sarat as she grows from child to extraordinary adult and sections describing how the country ended up in the situation it finds itself
on occasion I got a bit confused as to what the time period was that was being described in different sections as some sections were written as historical documents discovered far in the future from the time the story was set
It’s premise is that due to extreme climate change there has been a break down in civilisation with southern USA states breaking away from northern with a resulting endless civil war
The reality of climate change makes the book compelling reading .The author has experience of interviewing people in refuge camps across the world and terrorists in guatemano bay .This is very obvious in the sections set in the camps and prisons of the story and really add an extra layer of complexity to the story
I loved the way the book is split between descriptions of the life of the narrator sarat as she grows from child to extraordinary adult and sections describing how the country ended up in the situation it finds itself
on occasion I got a bit confused as to what the time period was that was being described in different sections as some sections were written as historical documents discovered far in the future from the time the story was set