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American War

Publication date
2017
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Pages
333
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781509892662
Language
en
FantasyScience FictionDystopianPolitics
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Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And 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.