Though he grew up in Ireland, McCann somehow pulls off an authentic native's story of New York City in 1974, when hookers and heroin and breakdancers and arson defined the Bronx, and the Vietnam War and disillusionment hung like a cloud over everything.
Events of catastrophic magnitude leave such an indelible mark on our psyche, and as cliché as the question might sound, we can’t help but ask, “Where were you when…?” In his remarkable novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer explores one brave child’s experience of this tragedy and his resulting incredible journey.
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