October 21, 2011

Books

And the Winner Is...

The SubmissionAmy WaldmanFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $26, 299 pp.

Bethe Dufresne

Only a reporter could have written The Submission, an acutely topical and realistic novel about the rancorous debate unleashed when a Muslim wins a competition to design a memorial to those killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks. This is a story that reads as if a New York City newspaper’s star reporter miraculously got intimate access to every major player and every major (...)


 

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