are you there?

repeated over and over as Oskar Schell stood frozen by the phone. his father. falling with thousands of others in the World Trade Center.

Jonathan Safran Foer's follow up to Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the story of nine-year-old Oskar Schell and his family who tragically lost Thomas, father, husband and son in the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Coupling haunting images from the attack on New York, Hiroshima, Dresden and the human spirit with visions of hope like the motion sensor window that would detect birds approaching and open before they crashed, Stephen Hawkings under a pear tree at sunset writing to amateur scientist Oskar and familial bonds transcending time and space. Incorporating pictures of our heroes journey, long lost letters from a Grandpa no one has heard from and the feelings of a hopeless romantic Grandmother whose own heroics parallel that of young Oskar, multiple tales unfold before the reader writ with a deft hand, extremely quick wit and incredibly large heart.

Thank you Jonathan for sharing your work with me.

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