![]() I like the ones that are darker than dark.Įnter American War. ![]() I mean, they are enjoyable and can be very well done, but when I typically look for dystopian, I want the grimdark kind that makes me hurt just thinking about it. I love dystopian settings, but I get really tired of the sort of cute-hard dystopian YA books. I’m going to drop another unpopular opinion on you fine people. 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.” Eventually, Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. 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 even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. ![]() Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. ![]()
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