Zeitoun by Dave Eggars
You should buy this and read it right now. Incredible and heartbreaking, but impossible to put down.
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. But, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared
Jonathan Demme To Turn Dave Eggers Hurricane Katrina Story Into Animated Film
Zeitoun is a non-fiction story written by Dave Eggers about a Syrian-American resident of New Orleans named Abdulrahman Zeitoun. When Hurricane Katrina struck, the Zeitoun family stayed in the city, and Abdulrahman paddled through the flooded streets in a canoe, offering help and supplies to fellow residents in need. But days after the storm hit, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared, and his family eventually discovered that he had been arrested without a trial. Eggers spent three years researching and writing this book, which chronicles what happened to Zeitoun in the context of the political and cultural atmosphere of New Orleans and the U.S. in the aftermath of Katrina.
Inspired by the cover art, a line drawing of Zeitoun in his canoe, Demme told the New York Times that he wanted to create Zeitoun in a hand-drawn animated style…No word yet if Eggers will pen the script.
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