AMERICAN WAR

Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. 2074. Americas future is Civil War. Sarats reality is survival. They took her father, they took her home, they told her lies . . . She didnt start this war, but shell end it. Omar El Akkad’s powerful debut novel imagines a dystopian future: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague and one family caught deep in the middle. In American War, we’re asked to consider what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons against itself.