Honors College Selects 2010 Summer Shared Read
The Honors College Shared Reading program is designed to introduce new
students to the academic and intellectual culture of the Honors College through
a common reading experience. The program also gives new students the
opportunity to meet faculty members and other new freshmen. All incoming
students are required to read Zeitoun before arriving on campus in August
and to attend an Honors College Convocation on August 25, where Dave Eggers
will address the Honors College community. Copies of Zeitoun will be
available in the LSU Bookstore during Spring Invitational, April 14-16.
The LSU Honors College has
selected Zeitoun, a national bestseller written by Dave Eggers, for this
year’s Shared Read for incoming Honors College freshmen. Zeitoun tells the true
story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syrian immigrant and New Orleans
resident, who decides to stay in New Orleans to protect his property as
Hurricane Katrina approaches. In the aftermath of the hurricane, Zeitoun
helps to rescue survivors caught in the flood before being illegally imprisoned
as a suspected terrorist.