Simon suffers a gunshot wound to the head but miraculously survives, albeit with significant brain damage. Martina is murdered, while Dana and Sarat only survive by hiding in Gaines' locked office. One night, Northern militiamen storm Camp Patience, slaughtering everyone in their path. Throughout the war, Bouazizi offers military and humanitarian aid to the Free Southern State to prolong the conflict and further destabilize the United States. The Bouazizi Union is a coalition of democratic states in North Africa and the Middle East.
He also introduces her to Joe, a citizen of the Bouazizi Union. One day, 12-year-old Sarat meets a man named Albert Gaines who teaches her about history, music, and most of all, Northern atrocities.
As the war continues, the Chestnuts fall into a routine at Camp Patience. Terrified that the fighting will reach her doorstep, Martina relocates her family to the Camp Patience refugee camp in Iuka, Mississippi, just South of the border to the Northern-aligned state of Tennessee. However, while applying for a permit, Benjamin dies in a Rebel "homicide bomber" attack on Baton Rouge's federal building. Because they live in the "purple state" of Louisiana, Benjamin requires a work permit to relocate his family to the North, where it is safer and there are more jobs. The Chestnut family consists of Martina and Benjamin, and their three children: nine-year-old Simon and six-year-old fraternal twins, Dana and Sarat. Part 1 is set in 2075, a year after the outbreak of the war. As Texas fights a two-fronted war against Mexico and the North, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia make up the Free Southern State, a belligerent coalition that fights the federal government in a Second American Civil War lasting from 2074 to 2095.Īfter the prologue, the novel is divided into four parts. The earliest state to revolt, South Carolina, is now completely walled-off and quarantined after the federal government unleashes what was designed to be a temporary virus but which causes everyone in its path to suffer permanent zombie-like symptoms.
Perceiving their industries and traditions to be under attack, five Southern states secede from the United States. In response, lawmakers in the new federal capital of Columbus, Ohio pass the Sustainable Future Act, prohibiting the use of fossil fuels nationwide. Due to climate change and rising sea levels, much of the American East Coast is underwater or uninhabitable. In a prologue, the narrator-Simon Chestnut’s son, Benjamin, named after Simon’s father-explains the massive social and political changes of the mid-to-late 21st century. This study guide refers to the 2017 edition published by Alfred A.
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