"Zeitoun is an instant American classic carved from fierce eloquence and a haunting moral sensibility.  By wrestling with the demons of xenophobia and racial profiling that converged in the swirling vortex of Hurricane Katrina and post-9/11 America, Eggers lets loose the angels of wisdom and courage that hover over the lives of the beleaguered, but miraculously unbroken, Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun.  This is a major work full of fire and wit by one of our most important writers." – Michael Eric Dyson