Title: Zeitoun
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: McSweeney's
Year: 2009
342 pages
Another--what?--ethnographic novel? assistive memoir? by Eggers. I appreciated the journalistic neutrality, but at times felt that this distance made Kathy seem more histrionic and Zeitoun more arrogant. If I were Eggers, I'd have ended with a quote from the Qur'an, since they were interspersed.
I read a World Book Night copy that I gave to someone who hadn't read it, who then asked me to read it so we could discuss it. I then handed it to another American in Africa.
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