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“Masterful... [A] scathing, dazzlingly crafted indictment of the messes people make when they mistake ideology for morality and bigotry for patriotism.” —Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment WeeklyA jury gathers in Manhattan to select the 9/11 memorial for the victims of the devastating terrorist attack. But when the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name—and discover he is an American Muslim, all are instantly cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. The memorial's designer is an enigmatic architect named Mohammad Khan. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the self-possessed and mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, she finds herself under pressure from outraged family members as she confronts hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself—as unknowable as he is gifted. All will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy.A striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole in the wake of
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- Author
- Amy Waldman
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429958288
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 3.66 / 5 (10,187 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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