A story that maps the palpable consequences for the world of accelerating climate change and an unraveling United States. It is a story that extrapolates the deep, partisan divisions that already plague American politics and looks at where those widening splits could lead.
Set in the closing decades of the 21st century and the opening ones of the 22nd, El Akkad’s novel recounts what happened during the Second American Civil War between the North and South and its catastrophic aftermath.
Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, “American War,” is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series “ The Hunger Games” and “ Divergent.” From these incongruous ingredients, El Akkad has fashioned a surprisingly powerful novel - one that creates as haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy did in “ The Road” (2006), and as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in “ The Plot Against America” (2004).
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