American war by omar el akkad
The political context in 2075 is fraught and fractured along energy lines, with the South - represented by the rebel states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and South Carolina - having seceded from an already crumbling Union to maintain the right to continue to extract fossil fuels from the ground.
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James, La., to the Displaced Persons of the Free Southern States refugee camp in Iuka, Miss. Chestnut, known as “Sarat.” At age 6, Sarat, her twin sister Dana, her older brother Simon and mother Martina must weather the death of their father Benjamin and make their way from St. What would it look like if America went to war with itself over oil, against a backdrop of devastation from the effects of climate change? The dystopian “American War,” a debut novel by journalist Omar El Akkad, makes such catastrophic “what if?” scenarios personal via an intimate portrait of a family in peril in the 2070s through 2080s.