~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner Oregon Book Award for Fiction - 2018
A fiercely audacious debut novel that takes a scalpel to American politics by drawing readers into a near future in which a politically polarized America descends into a second civil war, and amid that warfare, a family fights to survive . . .
A hauntingly told story of the immeasurable ruin of war in a nation, a community, a family, and an individual, American War is a novel that considers what might happen if the United States were to turn its most devastating policies and weapons upon itself.
"El Akkad demonstrates a profound understanding of the corrosive culture of civil war, the offenses that give rise to new hypocrisies and mythologies, translating terrorists into martyrs and acts of despair into feats of heroism." -- Washington Post