"Omar El Akkad's urgent debut transmutes our society's current dysfunction into a terrifying yet eerily recognizable future, where contemporary global and local conflicts have wreaked havoc on American soil. "American War, a work of a singular, grand, brilliant imagination, is a warning shot across the bow of the United States. Omar El Akkad has created a novel that isn't afraid to be a pleasurable yarn as it delves into the hidden currents of American culture and extrapolates from them to envision a deeply tragic potential future." - David Means, author of Hystopia El Akkad's story of a family caught up in the collapse of an empire is as harrowing as it is brilliant, and has an air of terrible relevance in these partisan times." - Emily St. " American War is an extraordinary novel. "A well-imagined if somber window into social collapse." - Kirkus This is a very dark read El Akkad creates a world all too familiar in its grisly realism." - Publishers Weekly Catalyzed by his reporting on the Arab Spring the war in Afghanistan racial violence in Ferguson, Missouri and environmental disasters, El Akkad has created a brilliantly well-crafted, profoundly shattering saga of one family's suffering in a world of brutal power struggles, terrorism, ignorance, and vengeance." - Booklist
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