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Omar El Akkad: American War: A Novel
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM Presents
OMAR EL AKKAD
AMERICAN WAR: A NOVEL
Hosted by GREG BRIDGES
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Wednesday, April 19, 7:30 PM
St. Johns Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Avenue, Berkeley
advance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus
(3 sites), Books Inc( Berkeley), Moes, Walden Pond Bookstore, Marcus Books, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloways $15 door, KPFA benefit info: kpfa.org/events
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.
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 middlea story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
Sarat 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.
Omar El Akkad is a recipient of Canada's National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting and the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists, as well as three National Magazine Award honorable mentions. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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 KPFAs Hip Hop and social affairs show HardKnock Radio. Greg has written for various publications including Jazz Now Magazine and Bayshore Magazine.
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LocationSt. John's Presbyterian Church and Center in Berkeley (View)
2727 College Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705
United States
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