DAVE EGGERS, in store signing ZEITOUN

Start: 09/14/2010 12:00 pm

End: 09/14/2010 1:00 pm

The busiest writer in San Francisco, Dave Eggers, will be stopping by Green Apple at non on Tuesday, September 14th to sign copies of his award-winning Zeitoun, newly available in paperback.

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. Don't miss this opportunity to meet and talk to him here in the store, and, if you haven't already, pick up a signed copy of Zeitoun.