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Shadid, Anthony.
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Shadid, Anthony
Families -- Lebanon.
Lebanon -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Middle East -- Social conditions.
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Shadid, Anthony.
Shadid, Anthony
Families -- Lebanon.
Lebanon -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Middle East -- Social conditions.
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House
of
stone
: a
memoir
of
home
,
family
, and a
lost
Middle
East
/ Anthony Shadid.
by
Shadid, Anthony.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Call #:
956.054 S524h
Subjects
Shadid, Anthony
Families -- Lebanon.
Lebanon -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Middle
East
-- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780547134666
0547134665
Description:
xviii, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the
house
his great-grandfather built, his
family
's ancestral
home
. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the
Middle
East
) realized that he had
lost
his passion for a region that had
lost
its soul. He had seen too much violence and death; his career had destroyed his marriage. Seeking renewal, he set out to rebuild the
house
that held his
family
's past in the town they had helped settle long ago. Although the course of the reconstruction is complicated by craftsmen with too much personality, squabbles with his extended
family
, and Lebanon's political strife, Shadid is restored along with the
house
and finds that his understanding of the
Middle
East
, which he had known chiefly in wartime, has been deepened by his immersion in smalltown life. Coming to terms with his
family
's emigrant experience and their town's history, the "homeless" Shadid finds
home
and comes to understand the emotions behind the turbulence of the
Middle
East
. In a moving epilogue, Shadid describes returning to this
house
after a nearly disastrous week as a prisoner of war in Libya along with the first visit of his daughter. Combining the human interest of The Bookseller of Kabul and Three Cups of Tea with the light touch of an expert determined, first, to tell a story, Shadid tells the story of a reconstruction effort that would have sent Frances Mayes to a psychiatric hospital as he brings to life unforgettable characters who lives help explain not just the modern
Middle
East
but the legacy of those who have survived generations of war. He flashes back to his
family
's loss of
home
, their suffering during their country's dark days, and their experiences as newcomers in Oklahoma. This is a book about what propels the
Middle
East
's rage, loss of
home
, and what it must examine and re-find, the sense of shared community. Far surpassing the usual reporter's "tour of duty," books,
House
of
Stone
is more humane and compelling and will please students of the region, those whose families have emigrated from other nations, and all readers engaged by engrossing storytelling."--From publisher.
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