Falling Man

In this essential work of fiction, DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships and reconfigured America's perceptions of the world, in a novel that is beautiful, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, redemptive. nFalling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. nThere is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. n nFalling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. n nFirst there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. n nThese are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. n nBrave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.n