O C T O B E R

[Benjamin Law]

Y & R   B O O K C L U B   F O R   O C T O B E R

In October, the Young and the Restless bookclub discusses 'Zeitoun', a non-fiction work by American writer Dave Eggers.

S Y N O P S I S

Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syrian-born painting contractor, decides to stay in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to protect his property while his family flees. After the levees break, he uses a small canoe to rescue people, before being arrested by an armed squad and swept powerlessly into a vortex of bureaucratic brutality. 

A C C O L A D E S 

Eggers’s tone is pitch-perfect—suspense blended with just enough information to stoke reader outrage and what is likely to be a typical response: How could this happen in America?
— The New York Times Book Review

[An] unmistakably a narrative feat, slowly pulling the reader into the oncoming vortex without literary trickery or theatrical devices. Humanistic, that is, in the highest, best, least boring sense of the word.” 
— Vanity Fair

D E T A I L S

WHEN: Wednesday 28 October @ 6.30pm (last Wednesday of every month)
WHERE: Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, West End
WOW: Regardless of whether you're able to attend bookclub, all Y&R mailing list members receive a 10% discount off all bookclub titles until the end of that month. Just tell the friendly Avid staff members you're a member.

C O M I N G   U P

NOVEMBER: A Gate at the Stairs (Lorrie Moore)

DECEMBER: To Be Confirmed

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