For August the book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats is reading "House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East." The New York Times described the book's Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the late Anthony Shadid, as "perhaps his generation's finest chronicler of the Middle East." Shadid writes in the book about restoring his ancestral home in Lebanon.
John Freeman of The Boston Globe is among the many critics who loved the book:
"This is not just the Arab world's Year in Provence. It is as if Shadid has combined the breakthrough effects of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Frances Fitzgerald's Fire in the Lake into one enormously likeable book. It is a masterpiece."
Join us to discuss this fine memoir on Wednesday, August 26th, (6:30 to chat — 7 to begin the discussion) at Chops and Hops in Watkinsville.
Pat Priest
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