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American war / Omar El Akkad.

Summary:

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780451493583
  • ISBN: 0451493583
  • Physical Description: 333 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards Note:
Oregon Book Award for Fiction, 2018.
Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2018),
James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2018),
Subject: Civil war > United States > Fiction.
Young women > United States > Fiction.
Drone aircraft > Fiction.
Dystopias.
Genre: Dystopian fiction.
Science fiction.
War fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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