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American war / Omar El Akkad.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781509852208 (paperback)
Name	El Akkad, Omar, 1982- author.
Title	American war / Omar El Akkad.
Published	London Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan 2017
Published	©2017
Description	333 pages ; 24 cm.
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, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
Subjects	Dystopias
	Civil war -- United States -- Fiction
	Young women -- United States -- Fiction
	Drone aircraft -- Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
	Science fiction
	Dystopian fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Civil war -- United States -- Fiction . Drone aircraft -- Fiction . Dystopian fiction . Dystopias . Science fiction . Young women -- United States -- Fiction . See Also: Utopias . Adventure stories . Fantasy fiction . Fiction . Literature and science . Star Trek fiction . Authors: El Akkad, Omar, 1982- .