Zeitoun (original 2009; edition 2010)

I survived Hurricane Hugo in 1989. The Zeitoun family's experience, like those of all of Katrina's survivors who were treated like criminals instead of victims, is unconscionable. ( )

I survived Hurricane Hugo in 1989. The Zeitoun family's experience, like those of all of Katrina's survivors who were treated like criminals instead of victims, is unconscionable. ( )

This book is absolutely riveting, as well as terrifying and heartbreaking. Hurricane Katrina, both the storm and its aftermath, need to be remembered. Zeitoun puts a face to the things that happened, tells it in detail. People need to read this book. ( )

I think this book should be required reading. What an example of how badly wrong things can go during times of disaster and distress. The care that went into the writing of this book is evidenced by the narrative: strong, compelling and caring yet still journalistic. The pages and pages of cited references add heft to the facts within the book. ( )

I am not sure what to say about this book, which begins as an interesting story about a Syrian immigrant, his family, and his business; relates his struggle to preserve his home and business and rescue people stranded by Hurricane Katrina; and then describes in a fairly understated way his trials in the criminal justice system and his wife's struggle to find out what has happened to him. ( )