American War

This book, for me, was emotionally provocative in a way I wasn't anticipating. After the first few pages it was clear I was reading something written by an expert and I devoured the words. This story has stuck with me, lingering. I have passed through all seven stages of grief and have accepted that this is not a contemporary novel, this is not some incredibly insightful work depicting an all too plausible dystopia. This is a historical fiction, a semi-factual tale about southern pride, northern greed and a divisiveness that can never end, as told by someone that's been there.

The book was very well written. It feels like a reality that could come to be by the way Akkad writes! American war is about a future 2nd civil war that strikes the United States, and follows one family and how one girl can shape the war.