15 Books You Should Read This Summer 12. Zeitoun Dave Eggers (Non-fiction) Quote: “It had been a dizzying series of events—arrested at gunpoint in a home he owned, brought to an impromptu military base built inside a bus station, accused of terrorism, and locked in an outdoor cage.  It surpassed the most surreal accounts he’d heard of third world law enforcement…  But then again, he noted, it was not unprecedented.  During Mardi Gras, when the local jails were full, the New Orleans police often housed drunks and thieves in temporary jails set up in tents.  This one though was far more elaborate, and had been built since the storm…It looked precisely like the pictures he’s seen of Guantanamo Bay.”

15 Books You Should Read This Summer

12. Zeitoun Dave Eggers (Non-fiction)

Quote: “It had been a dizzying series of events—arrested at gunpoint in a home he owned, brought to an impromptu military base built inside a bus station, accused of terrorism, and locked in an outdoor cage.  It surpassed the most surreal accounts he’d heard of third world law enforcement…  But then again, he noted, it was not unprecedented.  During Mardi Gras, when the local jails were full, the New Orleans police often housed drunks and thieves in temporary jails set up in tents.  This one though was far more elaborate, and had been built since the storm…It looked precisely like the pictures he’s seen of Guantanamo Bay.”