Exceptionally good book profiling a man who stayed behind as Katrina struck, paddled around his underwater city to see who he could help, and then was arrested for looting (on his own property), held in a cage with other prisoners without due process of any kind, and finally sent to a prison by order of FEMA, which incarcerated him for vague national security reasons. (He is a Muslim from Syria.) Playing an equally important role is his wife Kathy and their three daughters; though she was able to keep in touch with him for days after the hurricane, she had no way of knowing he had been taken into custody and feared the worst, a traumatic experience that has taken a toll. Eggers does an amazing job of evoking the mystery of a city submerged and lets this remarkable story tell itself in simple, no-nonsense, affecting prose. I enjoyed getting to know this man and his extended family, though what happened to him and to the city of New Orleans was an appalling miscarriage of justice and a lapse of simple humanity.