A Mission to Restore a House and a Man (Published 2012)Anthony Shadid, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad in 2010.Credit...Peter Van Agtmael The pain and allure of departure, more than the satisfaction of arrival, run through the stories told in “House of Stone,” Anthony Shadid’s elegiac, heartbreaking memoir of the year he spent restoring a long-abandoned family home in southern Lebanon. The book’s
