Zeitoun

I love reading because it gives me the opportunity to walk in other people's shoes. I learn about different ways of being, thinking, living, acting, and reacting. In Dave Eggers's Zeitoun, I learned firsthand what it was like to live through Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, the main character, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, and his family, do not survive unscathed.
     Not only are they victims of the lethal hurricane, they are victims of an unprepared, reactive government, of illegal arrest, and of the ignorance of racism. Instead of being lauded as the life-saving hero he was, Zeitoun was imprisoned as a terrorist in the chaos of post-Katrina New Orleans. This book tells his story, as well as that of his wife and children who had fled to safety in Arizona. Dave Eggers captures the anguish of not knowing the fate of those you love, as well as your own fate, when life is turned upside down.

Abdulrahman  and Kathy Zeitoun