House of stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East
(Playaway Audiobook)

Issued on Playaway.

Title from Playaway label.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback.

"HDAUDIO."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Previously released by Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Read by Neil Shah.

In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family's ancestral home. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the Middle East) realized that he had lost his passion for a region that had lost its soul. Seeking renewal, he set out to rebuild the house that held his family's past in the town they had helped settle long ago. Shadid is restored along with the house and finds that his understanding of the Middle East, which he had known chiefly in wartime, has been deepened by his immersion in smalltown life. Coming to terms with his family's emigrant experience and their town's history, the "homeless" Shadid finds home and comes to understand the emotions behind the turbulence of the Middle East.