Zeitoun
(2010)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
976.335/EGGERS,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 976.335/EGGERS,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, 2010
EDITION
First Vintage books edition
DESCRIPTION

xiii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780307387943, 0307387941, 9780307387943
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally published: San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, 2009

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman 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--arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda

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