A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughters college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers t akes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global ec onomys gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment and a mo ving story o...[Read more]