Zeitoun by David Eggers

Zeitoun is the last name of a Muslim family who live in New Orleans and who also lived there when Katrina arrived. This is their specific story set in the general context of Katrina and its immediate aftermath. It is thought-provoking and certainly raises issues about what happens as the infrastructure fails and how quickly some members of our society (the poor and sick and those with little primary support) find themselves in survival mode. David Eggers is a good writer. In addition to the particulars of what happens to the Zeitoun family, we learn, again, about these disenfranchised as the levees fail and water pours into and over New Orleans.