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DESCRIPTION:OMAR El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qatar, until 
 he moved to Canada with his family. He is an award-winning journalist and 
 author who has traveled around the world to cover many of the most 
 important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes 
 dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, the military trials at 
 Guantanamo Bay, the Arab Spring Revolution in Egypt, and the Black Lives 
 Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri.\n\n"American War: A Novel" is 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.\n\nSarat 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.\n\nEvent 
 host Greg Bridges is a radio dj and journalist living in Oakland. Currently 
 he can be heard over KCSM and KPFA, where he has a weekly show and is a 
 contributor to  KPFA's Hip Hop and social affairs show HardKnock Radio. 
 Greg has written for various publications including Jazz Now Magazine and 
 Bayshore Magazine.\n\nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006  or independent 
 bookstores, $15 door, KPFA benefit   info: kpfa.org/events\n\n$12 advance, 
 $15 door.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/09/18798162.php
SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad: American War
LOCATION:St. John's Presbyterian Church\n2727 College Avenue\nBerkeley, CA 94705
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/09/18798162.php
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