<div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Rockwell","serif"">Reminder: Tonight, Dave Eggers talking about his book "Zeitoun" at 7pm at the Illini Union / Illini rooms.</span></p>
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From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000242411" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">The New Yorker</a></h3><div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">
Through the story of one man’s experience after Hurricane Katrina, Eggers draws an indelible picture of Bush-era crisis management. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syrian-born painting contractor, decides to stay in New Orleans and protect his property while his family flees. After the levees break, he uses a small canoe to rescue people, before being arrested by an armed squad and swept powerlessly into a vortex of bureaucratic brutality. When a guard accuses him of being a member of Al Qaeda, he sees that race and culture may explain his predicament. Eggers, compiling his account from interviews, sensibly resists rhetorical grandstanding, letting injustices speak for themselves. His skill is most evident in how closely he involves the reader in Zeitoun’s thoughts. Thrown into one of a series of wire cages, Zeitoun speculates, with a contractor’s practicality, that construction of his prison must have begun within a day or so of the hurricane.</div>
</font><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Rockwell","serif"">* Dave Eggers is also an alumnus of UIUC.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Rockwell","serif"">* Zeitoun is the book being read for the One Book, One Campus</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Rockwell","serif"">* This event is free and open to everyone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Rockwell, serif">* </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Rockwell, serif; ">Copies of Zeitoun will be available for purchase at the event.</span></p>
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