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American War
by Omar El Akkad
"Sarat thought about how easy it would be to fix the mistake, to simply redraw the stars properly. But she knew that even broken history is history. The stars, cast wrong, must remain that way. It would be wrong to change them"
Set in a future where global warming has reduced America's land mass and a second civil war has broken out over the South's refusal to give up fossil fuels, American War follows the story of Sarat, a young girl who is growing up in the South. After surviving a massacre at the camp she lived in for six years, Sarat desires revenge on the people who killed her mother and injured her brother. But revenge will not come easy, and it will not come without a price.
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This was definitely a dense, slow read for me. I wish there had been a little more background about the causes of the war and the divisions that separated the country at the beginning of the novel, since these divides seemed crucial to understanding a lot of what was happening. Sarat as a character was an interesting person to read about, but felt pretty one dimensional motivation wise. I felt incredibly disappointed by the end of the book, because instead of closure it felt like the novel just ended back where it started and I wanted more for the characters. 3.5 stars.
Set in a future where global warming has reduced America's land mass and a second civil war has broken out over the South's refusal to give up fossil fuels, American War follows the story of Sarat, a young girl who is growing up in the South. After surviving a massacre at the camp she lived in for six years, Sarat desires revenge on the people who killed her mother and injured her brother. But revenge will not come easy, and it will not come without a price.
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This was definitely a dense, slow read for me. I wish there had been a little more background about the causes of the war and the divisions that separated the country at the beginning of the novel, since these divides seemed crucial to understanding a lot of what was happening. Sarat as a character was an interesting person to read about, but felt pretty one dimensional motivation wise. I felt incredibly disappointed by the end of the book, because instead of closure it felt like the novel just ended back where it started and I wanted more for the characters. 3.5 stars.