![]() (The donated blankets keep arriving, though they do little good in the 130-degree heat.) Across the Atlantic Ocean, in Europe, citizens are fleeing a broken continent and seeking refuge in North Africa, now part of the Bouazizi Empire, the world’s new superpower.ĭuring a recent interview in Vincennes, France, during the 2018 Festival America, a three-day biennial event celebrating North American literature and art, El Akkad, a journalist turned novelist, summed up the premise of his book: “I take things that happen over there and I make them happen over here,” he said, describing the book as a work of “dislocative” fiction. Camp Patience, a sprawling refugee camp near the Tennessee border, offers rudimentary shelter to citizens arriving from southern states who rely on scant rations and dubious shipments of aid. Fossil fuels are illegal, and Louisiana, where the story begins, is largely underwater. ![]() The year is 2074, and the United States is facing its second civil war. ![]() In Omar El Akkad’s 2017 novel, American War, the world as we know it has been flipped upside down. ![]()
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