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<p><b>On September 11, I dropped my son off at his second full day of kindergarten. The sky was so blue it looked as if it had been ironed. I crossed the street, ordered coffee, and sat to wait for my husband to meet me. It was our eighth wedding anniversary and Dave and I were about to begin a new chapter in our seventeen years together. Sipping coffee, I watched as a line of thick black smoke crept across the sky from Manhattan, oblivious to the fact that my life was about to change forever.</b></p> <p>On September 11, 2001, Marian Fontana lost her husband, Dave, a firefighter from the elite Squad 1 in Brooklyn, in the World Trade Center attack. <i>A Widow's Walk</i> begins that fateful morning, when Marian, a playwright and comedienne, became a widow, a single mother, and an unlikely activist.</p> <p>Two weeks after 9/11, the city attempted to close Squad 1, which had suffered the loss of twelve men. Known for her feisty spirit and passionate loyalty, Marian, who was still reeling from her profound loss, began to mobilize the neighborhood to keep the firehouse open. From this unlikely platform the 9/11 Widows and Victims' Families Association grew. Over the next twelve months, M

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Author

Fontana, Marian

Publisher

Simon & Schuster;Queensland Braille Writing Association

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743246248

Category

history

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Memoir, Social Science

Rating

4.14 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13