I am currently on a James McBride kick and am waiting for the Good Lord Bird from the library so that may be my first choice but there are others I will add to my “to read” list. The novel begins circa 2140 as an unnamed narrator reflects on his youth and the devastating war he was born into, the Second American Civil War, which took place between 20. I can’t wait to get one of the books on the list to read. Maybe I have missed something over the years, but I learned so much about the war that I never realized.Īlso, Michelle should add Varina to her already excellent list. The entire book was entirely unique in my opinion. A unique and eerily convincing masterwork, American War takes a scalpel to American politics, precisely dissecting it to see what would happen if their own. The book also details how she survived the end of the war and her post-war life and relationship with Jeff Davis. Varina was Jefferson Davis’ wife and the story told is clearly her story but the insight into Jefferson Davis and the Civil War itself by a non-combatant and critic of it -Varina-is an important and different view of the war. He wrote the excellent “Varina” which I liked even better than Cold Mountain. You should continue your “read everything by a good author” journey by reading yet another Civil War book by the author of “Cold Mountain” – Charles Frazier. As a novel that combines literary and speculative fiction, American War may be as polarizing for readers as the North/South schisms of this dystopian future, or our current political divisions.

The author takes our imagination forward in time to a second American Civil War, that erupts from 2074 until 2095, telling the story of the struggle through a mixture of. Martha – I agree about both of those books and loved both of them. American War is an exciting dystopian novel written by Omar El Akkad, an award-winning author and journalist who was born in Egypt, raised in Qatar, and now lives in Oregon.

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