Take a photo of a barcode or cover
eowyn 's review for:
American War
by Omar El Akkad
3 1/2 stars but I'm rounding up. This was less dystopian speculative fiction and more alternate (future) history. It's about the second civil war when 4 southern states secede and there are many years of war and then plague between the Red and the Blue. But it's really the story of one southern girl and how she gets turned into a revolutionary or a terrorist (depending on your point of view). So it ended up being less about possible results of our current political situation and more about how a refugee becomes a terrorist. It's told with a lot of empathy for the main character and is fairly compelling.