History buffs, however, will appreciate the family and Middle Eastern historical asides." - Publishers Weekly "The sentimentality sometimes borders on maudlin, and his identity quest is often lost among mundane construction details. "A complicated, elegiac, beautiful attempt to reconcile the physical bayt (home) and the spiritual." - Kirkus Reviews House of Stone is an unforgettable meditation on war, exile, rebirth, and the universal yearning for home.
In the process, Shadid memorializes a lost world, documents the shifting Middle East, and provides profound insights into this volatile landscape. In this poignant and resonant memoir, the author of the award-winning Night Draws Near creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house's renewal alongside his family's flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. House of Stone is the story of a battle-scarred home and a war correspondent's jostled spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. Instead, he returned to his great-grandfather's estate, a house that, over three years earlier, Shadid had begun to rebuild. Not to Boston or Beirut - where he lives - or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled and where he was raised.
In spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution.
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