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American war

El Akkad, Omar 1982- (author.). Graham, Dion, (narrator.).

Summary: 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, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.

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  • ISBN: 9781524779795
  • Physical Description: sound recording
    sound disc
    10 sound discs (12 1/2 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, ℗2017.

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Participant or Performer Note: Read by Dion Graham.
Subject: Civil war -- United States -- Fiction
Young women -- United States -- Fiction
Drone aircraft -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Fiction
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Audiobooks
Genre: Dystopian fiction.

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Summary: 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, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.

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