We are a group of ladies who gathered together years ago to welcome our kids into the world in July of 1999. We then bonded over loosing the baby weight. We occasionally have time to read. Here is what we are reading and what we think about it all...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Zeitoun
I just finished this book two days ago and am still thinking about it. I could not put it down and read the whole thing in 2 days. "Zeitoun" in a non-fiction novel following one family's experience living through hurricane Katrina in 1995. As I am not the most eloquent writer, I am including a review I felt summed up the feels I had about "Zeitoun":
"Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his journalistic eyes wide open, roaming New Orleans after it was buried by Hurricane Katrina. He would find anger and pathos. A dark fable, perhaps. His villains would be evil and incompetent, even without Heckuva-Job-Brownie. In the end, though, he would not be able to constrain himself; his outrage might overwhelm the tale." TIMOTHY EGAN, New York Times
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Ok - my bad as Katrina was in 2005, not 1995. Somehow I lost 10 years!!!
ReplyDeleteThis one is also on my list!
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