Still ‘Incredibly Close’ to the pain of 9/11

Genevieve Coleman | Friday, September 10, 2021

As we approach the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to think back to a story that has stuck with me since I read it three years ago: Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” The novel’s protagonist, Oskar Schell, is a nine-year-old boy determined to keep the memory of his father