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A moving account of the immediate aftermath of the attack on the twin towers, and it's terrible impact on the lives of survivors whose world has literally been turned upside down. A meditation on loss, survival, turmoil, relationships, how people react to the most traumatic situations and circumstances, ultimately a celebration of the human condition and its instinct for survival, no matter how damaged, battered and

A confused and confusing read, this novel feels like several short stories fairly randomly butted up against each other, with the boy meets and pursues girl thread ( Claude and Ariadne) mixed in with celtic tiger banking crises and the very strange dynamic of Paul (failed novelist, failed husband, failed entrepreneurs), Clizia ( put upon , cheating wife), Remington (feral, neglected child) and Igor ( too strange ).