American War

by Omar El Akkad

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--this gripping debut novel asks what might happen if America were to turn its most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451493583
• ISBN13: 9780451493583
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Haunting

This book, for me, was emotionally provocative in a way I wasn't anticipating. After the first few pages it was clear I was reading something written by an expert and I devoured the words. This story has stuck with me, lingering. I have passed through all seven stages of grief and have accepted that this is not a contemporary novel, this is not some incredibly insightful work depicting an all too plausible dystopia. This is a historical fiction, a semi-factual tale about southern pride, northern greed and a divisiveness that can never end, as told by someone that's been there.

Fantastic story

The book was very well written. It feels like a reality that could come to be by the way Akkad writes! American war is about a future 2nd civil war that strikes the United States, and follows one family and how one girl can shape the war.