I do not think I am the one to judge this book. I am not an American. I am not a Muslim. I am not religious and lack the faith spoken of in this book. Furthermore, I do not think this book adequately looks at what happened before, during and after Katrina. It studies one family’s experiences, only t...
This book is wonderfully hard to read. This a story of a man, at a point in time and the horror of everything that went wrong. The injustice and the fears the shortsightedness that lead to people basic rights just being swiped aside. But we are in the future and things change and current charges of...
I got this book for my Kindle from a local library, not knowing much about it. Because of this, I assumed it was fiction, and it was only very slowly--as I began to see photograph after photograph--that I suspected it was based on a real story. I think it was more powerful to read the book in this w...
This is the third Eggers book I've read and they've all been really readable. I like reading them.The others were Heartbreaking Work and What is the What, and all of them have been about things that are true.Zeitoun is fuckin' horrifying. It's about a Syrian emigrant to the US who chooses to stay in...
As is somewhat typical, I had no idea what I was in for when I picked up this book. I read what is recommended and I don't like to look at jacket covers or summaries or any reviews prior to reading it (I also hate movie trailers...I just want to see something unfold rather than have expectations or...
Another--what?--ethnographic novel? assistive memoir? by Eggers. I appreciated the journalistic neutrality, but at times felt that this distance made Kathy seem more histrionic and Zeitoun more arrogant. If I were Eggers, I'd have ended with a quote from the Qur'an, since they were interspersed. I r...
True account of one man's experiences when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, post 9/11, this being a Syrian Muslim makes the story that bit more interesting.It takes the American dream (a hard working immigrant with own business and a loving family doing well in the US) and then shows us just how b...
I've seen the footage and heard the news reports on Hurricane Katrina, but reading this man's first-hand experience living through the storm was pretty shocking.
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