COVID-19, civil strife, climate change: Omar El Akkad is living in the dystopia he described in his 2017 book

Set in 2074, Omar El Akkad’s 2017 book, American War, envisions a country riddled with plague, climate change and political unrest. The Canadian author, who lives in Oregon, talks about what it’s like to live at the confluence of the issues depicted in his prophetic book.