Southerners resented this and other impositions from the richer, prosperous Northern states. In the early 2070s, the federal government, by then based in Columbus, moved to outlaw fossil fuels. Climate change has changed the continent, submerging the banks of Louisiana and the near entirety of Florida, save for an island enclave or two, one of which eventually houses the notorious Sugarloaf Detention Facility for Northern prisoners of war. Omar El Akkad’s American War, which interprets the American South by way of the Middle East, challenges Americans to imagine what it might be like to die for, but also kill, their fellow citizens.
Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war as one of the Miraculous Generation and now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past - his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.Dystopian novels are a difficult genre: They need to be imaginative, edging on the far-fetched, while being just plausible enough to terrify. Why Omar El Akkad's novel American War hit close to home for journalist Michelle Shephard.Why Omar El Akkad deleted his entire novel once - then scrambled to save it.Canada Reads panellist Tahmoh Penikett and American War author Omar El Akkad get to know each otherĪnd 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.How Canada Reads panellist Tahmoh Penikett is preparing for the debates.Canada Reads 2018 finale: Watch the replay.Why Tahmoh Penikett thinks American War should win Canada Reads.But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky.
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