When Sarat’s father dies while seeking passage to the North, his absence only partly explains why, when it seems as if their home will be destroyed, Sarat’s mother is so willing to seek refuge aboard a bus headed to Camp Patience.Īll the surviving Chestnuts come to rue that hasty decision. James, La., a place of relative safety in a land torn apart by climate change and political turmoil. The girl lives with her parents, older brother and twin sister in flooded St. On the date of the planned Reunification Day Ceremony, a terrorist unleashed a biological agent that ultimately claimed 110 million lives and reshaped the geography of North America.įollowing that initial burst of exposition, El Akkad shifts the time frame to 2075 and the narrative focus to 6-year-old Sara T. After a suicide bomber killed the American president, the so-called Free Southern State declared independence, precipitating five years of Union victories, followed by a lull in hostilities and then another period of guerrilla violence instigated by rebel secessionists.
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