Hi there, sweet peeps! It's time for another Tuesday's Tales and one of my favorite topics - books!
I have focused on children's picture books a lot because I really do love them, but tonight at dinner, my family and I were talking about a book that we all really loved that never really made a huge splash when it came out.
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is the true story of one man and his life in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. He decided not to leave when the storm was approaching, deciding instead to stay behind to check on his houses (he owned a building company and also had several houses with many tenants that would need to be checked after the storm). So Zeitoun said goodbye to his wife and four children, thinking they would be reunited within a few days, only to embark upon an incredible journey of humanity and abuse. Eggers first heard Zeitoun's story through Voice of Witness, the charity he set up in 2004 to record and examine abuses of human rights.
Read it. You may be shocked at what you read, but it's such an unbelievable and remarkable story that we can all learn from it.
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