On Tuesday from 12noon until 1pm, Green Apple Books (506 Clement Street) will host award-winning author Dave Eggers, who will sign copies of his book Zeitoun, which is now available in paperback.
From Green Apple’s website:
Zeitoun is a compelling and urgent work of narrative non-fiction that, through the lens of one family’s harrowing experience, examines the state of post-hurricane New Orleans and its national and international context in all its complexity.
It’s tough to put it better or offer more aptly high praise than the New York Times Book Review did, saying, “Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his journalistic eyes wide open, roaming New Orleans after it was buried by Hurricane Katrina… Eggers’ 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?”
Eggers is also the editor of McSweeney’s, co-founder of the local non-profit writing center 826 Valencia, and author of the Pulitzer-finalist memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
Stop by to meet Eggers, who makes his home in San Francisco, and if you haven’t already read the book, pick up a signed copy of Zeitoun.
Sarah B.