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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
I've been meaning to read this for FOREVER (and even purchased the audio a couple of years ago!) because readers with good taste keep telling me it's amazing. From Booklist This follow-up to Foer's extremely good and incredibly successful Everything Is Illuminated stars one Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old amateur inventor and Shakespearean actor. But Oskar's boots, as he likes to say, are very heavy--his father, whom he worshiped, perished in the World Trade Center on 9/11. In his dad's closet a year later, Oskar finds a key in a vase mysteriously labeled "Black." So he goes searching after the lock it opens, visiting (alphabetically) everyone listed in the phone book with the surname Black. No spoilers here, but we will say that the book ends with what is undoubtedly the most beautiful and heartbreaking flip book in all of literature."
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.
Jionathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.
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