American War
Omar El Akkad • 2017
Devastation Rating
war political dystopian trauma survival literary fiction
Our Take
America at war with itself in the near future, told through Sarat Chestnut who is shaped by every act of violence done to her and does worse in return. El Akkad writes the cycle of trauma and radicalisation with a journalist's precision. The horror is the familiarity.
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