Divided Kingdom
by Rupert Thomson | 
On Such a Full Sea
by Chang-Rae Lee | 
The Wanting Seed
by Anthony Burgess | 
The Resisters
by Gish Jen | 
Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich | 
Concrete Island
by J. G. Ballard | 
1985
by Anthony Burgess |
The Warehouse
by Rob Hart | 
Gather the Daughters
by Jennie Melamed | 
The Ice People
by Maggie Gee | 
Regiment of Women
by Thomas Berger | 
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood | 
The Stone Gods
by Jeanette Winterson | 
The Word Exchange
by Alena Graedon | 
2030
by Albert Brooks | 
Severance
by Ling Ma | 
Good Morning, Midnight
by Lily Brooks-Dalton |
The Wall
by John Lanchester | 
A Friend of the Earth
by T. Coraghessan Boyle | 
When the English Fall
by David Williams |
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, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war - part of the Miraculous Generation - now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.