I think - intentionally - Dave Eggers used an unemotional journalistic tone to tell us about Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun. As a result, I felt like I was a distant observer, watching a documentary about the chaos of New Orleans during and following Hurricane Katrina...until the last third of the book, when Abdulrahman ends up falsely imprisoned. It sounded just a little too much like the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. What happened to the Zeitouns should not have happened, and it's a sad, sad commentary on this country that it's easier to be afraid than it is to protect our civil rights.