TY - BOOK AU - El Akkad, Omar, TI - American war SN - 9781509852208 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan KW - Civil war KW - United States KW - Fiction KW - Young women KW - Drone aircraft KW - Dystopias KW - Science fiction 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, 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 ER -