![]() ![]() ![]() 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.īut not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be.Įventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074.īut even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. ![]() 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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