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

When Anthony Shadidone of fourNew York Timesreporters captured in Libya as the region eruptedwas 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 greatgrandfather, 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 awardwinningNight Draws Neartells the story of the houses recreation, revealing its mysteries and recovering the lives that have passed through it. Shadid juxtaposes past and present as he traces the houses renewal along with his familys flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America.House of Stoneis an unforgettable memoir of the worlds most volatile landscape and the universal yearning for home.