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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2011
On Sale: August 16, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0374271569
EAN: 9780374271565
Hardcover
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Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel
reimagines its aftermath A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the
victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught
deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope
containing the anonymous winner’s name—and discover he is an
American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate
about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the
meaning of Islam. Their conflicted response is only a
preamble to the country’s. The memorial’s designer is an enigmatic, ambitious 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 and in collision with hungry journalists, wary
activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and
Khan himself—as unknowable as he is gifted. In the fight for
both advantage and their ideals, 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. In this deeply humane novel, the breadth of Amy Waldman’s
cast of characters is matched by her startling ability to
conjure their perspectives. A striking portrait of a
fractured city striving to make itself whole, The Submission
is a piercing and resonant novel by an important new talent.
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