false <![CDATA[Zeitoun]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571504m/6512154.jpg 6512154 1 When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggers’s riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Zeitoun’s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy — an American who converted to Islam — and their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun was possible. Like <i>What Is the What</i>, <i>Zeitoun</i> was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research — in this case, in the United States, Spain, and Syria. 6703901 book 15 7 2009 Zeitoun total:1175|5:511|4:502|3:142|2:17|1:3| 1175 5026 3106 415 5 36 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 23:03:50 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 22:26:38 -0700 2009 What Is The What as an act of defiance against the culture at the Strand, where all the book snobs I was working with were way, far too cool to like him. I don't think I looked into the situation very critically though....more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 00:37:14 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 09:11:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 4 false false Thu Jul 16 14:29:43 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 08:02:39 -0700 2009 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 19:56:09 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 19:56:09 -0800 2009 And then gets arrested by the police and national guardsman and locked in a cage on suspicion of being a terrorist. I only ruin the surprise b...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:13:43 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:20:05 -0800 2009 This book was the first by Eggers I've read, so I had none of the baggage that people seem to have about him. It's a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American owner of a house painting company who stayed behind in New Orleans for Katrina. He ends up paddling around in a canoe helping out vario...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 08:15:11 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 08:48:36 -0800 2009 Jeremy Bales suggested we read this one together. We were struck by Eggers' Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and I admire Eggers for his 826 youth programs and McSweeney's.

Jeremy and I talked early on about our disappointment in the book's prose, how elementary...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 19:02:16 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 19:09:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 10:09:06 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 10:09:06 -0700 2009
So I'll start with the end of the book, when Zeitoun's wife Kathy expresses sur...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:29:47 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:30:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 30 05:34:40 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 05:39:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 07:17:40 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 06:12:45 -0700 2009 Initially, the hardships of the storm are formidab...more...]]> 5 4 false true Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 07:41:07 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 07:43:25 -0700 2009 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Gen...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 08:11:07 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 08:26:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 21:19:29 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 21:40:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 22:18:55 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 22:26:50 -0700 2009 Zeitoun is a moving and eye-opening non-fiction journalistic account of a much-loved and respected Syrian-born small business owner and resident of New Orleans in the days before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. Eggers worked closely with Abdulrahman Zeitoun (known simply as "Zeitoun"...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 17:53:46 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 11:27:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 12:02:20 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 21:10:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 05:17:53 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 05:20:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 17:50:47 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 16:51:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 13:04:53 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 11:53:24 -0700 2009 Zeitoun a four-star review being that it is nowhere near the book that Eggers' other work -- save for, probably, What is the What -- remains.

There is a tiny bit too much religion in Zeitoun, but it's an integral part of the main characters' existence. The true story makes f...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6512154