Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers

Abdulrahman Zeitoun is a real-life hero, a local businessman who, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, paddled from house to house in a canoe, offering help to his neighbours. For his trouble, he was arrested as a suspected terrorist. Zeitoun is an extraordinary and Kafkaesque tale of how a man because of his ethnic background can get caught up in a hellish scenario where he is held prisoner and nobody knows where he is.