nshemezis 's review for:

American War by Omar El Akkad

5.0

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I finished this book last night. I had book club today where the author, who lives in Portland, came and talked to us about the book. I may now be giving this book 5 stars because I thought he was a very relatable human. But I honestly did love this book. It's hard to read. It's violent. But it tells the story of war and violence and how the things around us and and how the things that happen to us shape us. Sarat is shaped by the violence in her life and that guides her actions. This is a fictional telling of America's second civil war but it also mirrors the horrors of the Iraq War but puts it in the context of 'what if it happened here.'