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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

Anthony Shadid

Discussion: 2012-Jan-Feb-Mar

Why we're reading this: mentioned and discussed with Dexter Filkins March 15, 2012
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Apr 17, 2013 Marieke rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2013, memoir, non-fiction, journalism-opinion, kindle, lebanon, brand-spankin-new, e-book

I liked this book more and more as I read, but also felt sadder and sadder with Anthony Shadid's death in the back of my mind. Maybe Dr. Khairallah is teaching him how to care for bonsai now, somewhere in an alternate dimension. Or something...

Here on Earth in the living realm, I found the predictions of the syrian conflict scattered about in the book quite unsettling. On a less morbid note, I really enjoyed reading about his family coming to America and creating their life here. I have an even ...more

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Sep 30, 2013 Linda rated it liked it

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Anthony Shadid is an American of Lebanese decent who sought and found, if not his family's roots, at least his ancestral home that he painstakingly restored. Along the way he learned the customs and personality of the peoples in his sphere, both family and strangers. Shadid restored not only the home, but the land, the olive trees became of special significance to Shadid - a link to the past while starting a new tradition.
The story weaves ancestor stories with Shadid's tribulations restoring the ...more

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