American war
Record details
- ISBN: 0451493583
- ISBN: 9780451493583
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Physical Description:
333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
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Subject: | Young women Fiction Civil war United States Fiction |
Genre: | Dystopian fiction. -- Fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Covington Branch | ELAKK O (Text) | 33126022086775 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | ELAKK O (Text) | 33126022086783 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | ELAKK O (Text) | 33126022086791 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 November #2
In Egyptian-born, Canadian-based journalist El Akkad's debut novel, the second American Civil War has broken out, and six-year-old Sarat Chestnut is herded into a displaced persons camp with her family. There, a mysterious official begins training her to be a weapon of war. Owing to strong sales rep enthusiasm, this book is getting special treatment.. Copyright 2016 Library Journal. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 March #2
Award-winning journalist Akkad's gripping and frightening debut novel takes off from current American political and environmental issues to imagine a bleak and savage not-too-distant future. During a long second American civil war, the Chestnut family, consisting of a mother, son, and twin daughters, are moved to a refugee camp in what's left of a region of Mississippi in the year 2081. There, one of the daughters, Sarat, grows into a strong and independent soul who is recruited by a shadowy operative to conduct missions against the northern borders. She assassinates a high-ranking leader of the North's military, leading to reprisals and her eventual capture. She is tortured by the North, then finally released and moves back south with her injured brother and his family. Later, she's offered the chance to perform one final deadly mission in order to sabotage the peace talks that are finally taking place between the two bitter enemy regions.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal.VERDICT Well written, inventive, and engaging, this relentlessly dark tale introduces a fascinating character in Sarat. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 10/24/16.]âJames Coan, SUNY at Oneonta Lib. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2018 January
Benjamin Chestnut, a historian of the Second U.S. Civil War (2075â93), chronicles the life and times of his aunt Sarat. When he first meets her, she is a stoop-backed woman who hides in the shed behind his house, sleeps on the floor, and speaks to no one. When readers first meet her, she is a feisty six-year-old, ready to take on the world. And what a world it is: climate change has created sea rise that wiped out both U.S. coasts for miles inland, and searing heat burns the soil so that food must be brought in from foreign shores. Sarat is caught in the middle of a burgeoning war between the states, based on Northern demands that the South give up fossil fuels. This hardship breeds resentment, and violence seeps into Sarat's life. The girl's mother insists they leave their home in Louisiana for points north, but they make it only as far as the refugee camp at the border of the northernmost Southern state. Here, Sarat learns her cultural history from those who recruit her to serve the South. Interspersing the work with news, government reports, and interviews, Benjamin describes Sarat's growing resistance, willingness to fight fiercely, and subsequent capture and torture. Twenty years later, when Benjamin meets her, she is broken but unrepentant; Sarat serves up one last horrible act of revenge to ensure victory for the South.
Copyright 2017 School Library Journal.VERDICT Give this fascinating, terrifying dystopian novel to mature or politically or environmentally minded teens, who will undoubtedly connect events in 2017 with those of the 2070s.âConnie Williams, Petaluma High School, CA l