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American War

Omar El Akkad

Start date: April 15, 2024

Finish date: May 1, 2024

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Apr 24, 2017 Kdawg91 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This was powerful and massively frightening, as a Southerner, I can totally see this occuring and it scares me to death. A tale of the second civil war in America that in all honesty feels almost timeless, it could almost have easily been the first civil war.

Horrible times, lawlessness, death and disease at every corner and so tangibly possible it hurts to read it. Powerful storytelling and characters and as a lifelong Mississippian, ripped out my heart in places, but that is a good thing.

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Nov 16, 2017 Kirsten T rated it really liked it

A good book but not at all enjoyable to read.

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Dec 28, 2017 🥀 Rose 🥀 rated it it was ok

Shelves: dystopian-speculative-fiction

"My favorite postcards are from the 2030s and 2040s, the last decades before the planet turned on the country and the country turned on itself. They featured pictures of the great ocean beaches before rising waters took them; images of the southwest before it turned to embers; photographs of the midwestern plains, endless and empty under bluest sky, before the inland exodus filled them with the coastal displaced. A visual reminder of America as it existed in the first half of the twenty first ce ...more

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