In my limited spare time between studying for finals and writing papers, I've begun re-reading Johnathan Safran Foer's second novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Taking place in the mind of a child in post September 11th New York, and through the letters of two German immigrants who survived the bombing of Dresden, this novel looks at the complexities of the personal impact of large scale tragedy. In doing so, Foer paints a beautiful, and sometimes jarring, portrait of how events that have had global implications alter the paths of individual lives.
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