{"product_id":"9780547134666","title":"House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Evocative and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eHouse of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e . . . should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East.” — Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of \u003ci\u003eCrossing Mandelbaum Gate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In rebuilding his family home in southern Lebanon, Shadid commits an extraordinarily generous act of restoration for his wounded land, and for us all.” — Annia Ciezadlo, author of \u003ci\u003eDay of Honey\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution. When he was freed, he went home. Not to Boston or Beirut—where he lives— or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled and where he was raised. Instead, he returned to his great-grandfather’s estate, a house that, over three years earlier, Shadid had begun to rebuild. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouse of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e 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. In this poignant and resonant memoir, the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eNight Draws Near \u003c\/i\u003ecreates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house’s renewal alongside his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. In the process, Shadid memorializes a lost world, documents the shifting Middle East, and provides profound insights into this volatile landscape. \u003ci\u003eHouse of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable meditation on war, exile, rebirth, and the universal yearning for home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013204066544,"sku":"9780547134666","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547134666_p0.jpg?v=1763716250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547134666","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}