In an effort to reach out to those serious-minded folks who read no fiction, Dog Ear Books is beginning a new Non-Fiction book club to begin Friday, January 15th. Topics and the format for book selection are still up in the air and I’d love to hear ideas from anyone interested. You can email me or call me at the store (dogearbooks@gmail.com 706-342-3460) with any questions or suggestions.
To get things going, though, we’re going to read Dave Eggers’ new book,Zeitoun, and we’ll be offering it up at a 30% discount for this inaugural book club meeting.
The book club is very much in the development phase and I’d love to hear feedback or questions from anyone who is interested in attending and has ideas for the format or book suggestions for the club. Let me hear from you if you’re interested!
(Here’s a blurb on the book…)
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, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. But, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggers’s riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Zeitoun’s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy—an American who converted to Islam—and their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun became possible. Like What Is the What, Zeitoun was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research—in this case, in the U.S., Spain, and Syria.
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