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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

UPDATE: Publication date has been moved from March 27th to Feb 28th.

Last spring, when Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home. Not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma where he was raised by his Lebanese-American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle East was a world of grace, grandeur, and unexpected departures. For two years previous, Shadid had worked to reconstruct the house and restore his spirit after both had weathered war.

Now the author of the award-winning Night Draws Near (National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize) tells the story of the house’s re-creation, revealing its mysteries and recovering the lives that have passed through it.

Shadid juxtaposes past and present as he traces the house’s renewal along with his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. House of Stone is an unforgettable memoir of the world’s most volatile landscape and the universal yearning for home.


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“House of Stone takes the reader to the heart of the Middle East and all its conflicts: the core question of what gives people a sense of who they are and what they are. In this deeply personal but deeply relevant memoir, he looks at the way family, place, history and faith work their way into a people’s blood, determining not only how they look at their past, but how they go about trying to build a future.” – Christopher Dickey, Middle East Bureau Chief, Newsweek
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    "I do not approve of and will not be a part of any public discussion of Anthony's passing. It does nothing but sadden Anthony's children to have to endure repeated public discussion of the circumstances of their father's death."
    –Nada Bakri, wife of the late Anthony Shadid
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    anna_lamadda: #lacasadipietra di #anthonyshadid è un libro DA LEGGERE. Un ottimo consiglio di @robertosaviano
    92 months ago
    beatnikjourno: Yes. RT @jessradio Remembering #MarieColvin and #AnthonyShadid today on #InternationalPressFreedomDay. Two great journalists we lost.
    93 months ago
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    ShadiElkarra: RT @camanpour: Deeply honored to receive the #AnthonyShadid award for journalism at Tuesday April 16 @AAIUSA Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards in DC.
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    ojsutton: RT @camanpour: Deeply honored to receive the #AnthonyShadid award for journalism at Tuesday April 16 @AAIUSA Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards in DC.
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  • Reviews

    • “…wise, compassionate storytelling” : Review from Annia Ciezadlo
    • House of Stone Review from Dave Eggers
    • “I was captivated, instantly”: Dave Cullen
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