02877cam a2200349 4500 545317070 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547524337 0547524331 B007BFXAXQ Amazon b71b88f0-805d-4536-8b55-f0a2847a4d2d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1044203 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shadid, Anthony. House of Stone [Libby] : A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. HMH Books, 2012. Personal Memoirs. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1077kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>"Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." — Philip Caputo, <i>Washington Post</i><br /> <br /> In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in its wake.<br /> <br /> So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist's wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house's renewal alongside the history of his family's flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East. This paperback edition includes an afterword by the journalist Nada Bakri, Anthony Shadid's wife, reflecting on his legacy.<br /> <br /> "A poignant dedication to family, to home, and to history . . . Breathtaking." — <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br /> <br /> "Entertaining, informative, and deeply moving . . . <i>House of Stone</i> will stand a long time, for those fortunate enough to read it." — <i>Telegraph</i> (London)</p>. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B71B88F0-805D-4536-8B55-F0A2847A4D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B71B88F0-805D-4536-8B55-F0A2847A4D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B71B88F0-805D-4536-8B55-F0A2847A4D2D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)