Just fantastic. In the vein of "What is the What" Eggers tells the harrowing story of family in Pre and Post Katrina New Orleans in the family's own voice. Eggers' ability to take on the voice of the people he profiles amazes me. I find his style to be quite distinct, i can always see him reading to me in my head. Honestly, I wasn't able to get through his pseudo memoirs, they were too cloying, but his non-fiction work is great.
Zeitoun follows the adventures of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian immigrant who chooses to stay in New Orleans when Katrina hit. It's such a remarkable story, I don't want to say more.
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