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 (...)
October 21, 2011
Books
And the Winner Is...
The SubmissionAmy WaldmanFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $26, 299 pp.
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