Zeitoun
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A New York Times Notable Book
An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the Year
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year
A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year
A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Decade
The right tale of one family tree, caught between America’s two largest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family tree’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.
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I like Dave Eggers’ writing, but his business judgment is missing. I really want to read this book, but he has chosen not to make it available for Kindle.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was expecting to learn something new when I read the rave reviews for this book. I didn’t. This has got to be one of the most poorly written books I’ve ever laid my eyes on. It read like it was written by 5th grade student for a 5th grade student. As a replacement for of some new and enlightening information on Katrina, I had to drag myself thru the life of Zeitoun before his arrival to New Orleans. Yawn! And how many times did the leader have to make it a point to tell me how wonderful Zeitoun and his wife are? Too many! And the dull tales about his additional family tree members living abroad? Too much! And the endless fawning over the Muslim religion while taking silent swipes at Christianity? Over the top!
Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating events to ever take place to this fantastic country. Did we screw it up? You bet we did. But this book tells us nothing new, but I’m sure the bleeding hearts will like it to death (slot in major sarcasim here) but not me.
And I stand by my review. No honest beating me up for not following the pack.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I liked reading this book about a hard effective, honest, family tree guy who got into some distress after Katrina. I reflect the leader wanted us to have sympathy to the main character and his family tree, and I had this when i finished the book. But, upon thinking about it, I realized that the Zeiton guy had it pretty excellent, and his troubles were not so terrible. He was caught in an area he should not have been, and was place in jail. He got out of jail a lot quicker than additional New Orleans people. The only abuse he got for being Arabic was that some jailers and military guys called him names like “Taliban” or “al-kaeda”. I hope Eggers did not want to place the USA down, because if this Zeitoun guy was caught doing something incorrect in Syria, Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, he would have suffered a lot worse. It is obvious that Zeitoun does not want to go back to persons Islamic countries, and in his next book, Eggers should tell us why this is so.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
What an unfortunate book! What Eggers does is to exaggerate a foolish choice by an individual into a horror tale of bias and discrimination. The facts are simple enough: Zeitoun failed to accept the warnings of New Orleans authorities, and stayed in the flooded city after his family tree stirred to safety. In fact, his family tree would have been better off, much more comfortable, and far less fearful had he looked after THEM as he should. In fact, he didn’t save anyone! He tried to help some dogs, but they died! Certainly there was racial/ethnic bias. There’s a huge surprise! We had been attacked. Zeitoun was a member of one of the ethnic groups which attacked us. We really don’t know how may Arabic-language immigrants, and their progeny, we have in the US. Danny Thomas was Syrian. George Mitchell the son of Lebanese parents as was Dr DeBakey the heart surgeon. The leader of “The Exorcist” had Arab ancestry. There have been many members of Congress who had Arab parents or grandparents. Yet Americans persist in seeing them as a very foreign element; more so since 9/11. Zeitoun knew this: he had to! And still he stayed. For an Arab-American, like me, the book is a horrible reading experience; we are Americans (I served in Combat in Korea and had a career as a US Diplomat) because Zeitoun caused the bias to take place!
Don’t buy this book; as a replacement for buy Hourani’s “A History of the Arab Peoples.”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Dave Eggers and New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath should have made for an incredible tale.
It did not.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5