TY  - BOOK
AU  - El Akkad,Omar
TI  - American War
SN  - 9781524779856 
U1  - F ELA 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House Large Print
KW  - Drone aircraft
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Environmental disasters
KW  - Futurism
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Young women
KW  - United States
KW  - Fossil fuels
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Biological warfare
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Internally displaced persons
KW  - Civil war
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - FICTION / Dystopian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Authors, Canadian
KW  - Canadian fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - 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
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