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2074. America’s upcoming is Civil War. Sarat’s the truth is success. They required her dad, they had taken her home, they informed her lies .

She didn’t start this war, but she’ll end it.

Omar Un Akkad’s powerful debut novel imagines a dystopian long term: a second American Civil War, a damaging plague and one family members caught deep in the middle. In American Battle, we’re asked to consider what might happen if America were to carefully turn its most devastating policies and lethal weaponry against itself.