Haven of Dust is a novel of speculative dystopian fiction, set in the near future and describing the breakdown of American society in the face of the Second Civil War, a contest that pits Red states against Blue after a major economic collapse. Recounted in the third person, the narrative centers on the experiences of Karima Makauskas, a forty-six-year-old high school English teacher whose calm, orderly existence in an Illinois town is disrupted by...