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July 2009
On Sale: July 17, 2009
342 pages
ISBN: 1934781630
EAN: 9781934781630
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Non-Fiction
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 What Is the What, Zeitoun was
written in close collaboration with its subjects and
involved vast research — in this case, in the United
States, Spain, and Syria.
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