House of Stone: a Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle EastBy Anthony Shadid
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 311 pgs. Nonfiction
In this book, which was a finalist in nonfiction for the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize winning author Shadid writes about his ancestral family home in Lebanon. Interweaving the history of the village of Marayoun with the restoration of the century old stone "bayt" alongside his own personal journey of emotional recovery, Shadid creates an elegant and profound memoir. I highly recommend this wonderful book. SH
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