- Civil war, Fiction, Young women, Science fiction
"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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Grave, contemporary, epic and earnest.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Omar El Akkad
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Random House Large Print, Emblem Editions, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101973134
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