Nîmes Area Book Club
meets every last Friday of the month
meets every last Friday of the month
Friday 31 July 2020 at 11 am
we will meet at a member’s home
We will discuss Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- the true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters : the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Syrian-Americans Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August 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 neighbours. Then, on 6 September, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.
For practical reasons attendance is limited to 14.
If you’d like to attend, please e-mail me.
Geneviève
genevieve@britsnimes.com
we will meet at a member’s home
We will discuss Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- the true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters : the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Syrian-Americans Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August 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 neighbours. Then, on 6 September, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.
For practical reasons attendance is limited to 14.
If you’d like to attend, please e-mail me.
Geneviève
genevieve@britsnimes.com
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