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Reader recommendation: Zeitoun
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
By Bernice Youtz, Tacoma, Wash. / October 18, 2010
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Readers-picks/2010/1018/Reader-recommendation-Zeitoun
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is a book that every American should read.
First, it is a page-turner, and second, it is true, about an American
citizen and businessman, a Muslim originally from Syria, during the
Katrina crisis in New Orleans. Zeitoun's wife had taken the children
to safety; he remained to look after their property, paddled about the
flooded area in his canoe, rescued several people, fed some abandoned
dogs, then - without provocation - was arrested and held incommunicado
for many days. We would like to think it could not happen in America,
but it did, and with the current fervor over Islam, we need to read
this book. It is a true story. When I learned that the author and the
family were devoting profits to a small foundation dedicated to legal
justice, I bought another copy and am passing it around.
From: A. Papazian
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
By Bernice Youtz, Tacoma, Wash. / October 18, 2010
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Readers-picks/2010/1018/Reader-recommendation-Zeitoun
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is a book that every American should read.
First, it is a page-turner, and second, it is true, about an American
citizen and businessman, a Muslim originally from Syria, during the
Katrina crisis in New Orleans. Zeitoun's wife had taken the children
to safety; he remained to look after their property, paddled about the
flooded area in his canoe, rescued several people, fed some abandoned
dogs, then - without provocation - was arrested and held incommunicado
for many days. We would like to think it could not happen in America,
but it did, and with the current fervor over Islam, we need to read
this book. It is a true story. When I learned that the author and the
family were devoting profits to a small foundation dedicated to legal
justice, I bought another copy and am passing it around.
From: A. Papazian