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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on... read more
First Sentence
On the moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather their lanterns and set out in their quietest boats.
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Authors & Contributors
- Dave Eggers (Author)
Awards
- Amazon.com's Best Books (November 2009: Editors' Picks, #54)
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