The Freedom Tower

The sight of a single man jumping or falling from one of the Twin Towers became too painful for any of us to watch anymore – so Don DeLillo stored this collective memory away for us until now.
DeLillo has written Falling Man – the novel.
He has written a fictionalized account of 9/11 and the reviews say DeLillo has succeed in capturing this horrific experience. Now DeLillo is really an acquired taste… his previous work, according to Mitch Hankins of the Summit Daily News was often written to “be sold by the pound rather than as a book.”
This is different.
“DeLillo has written “Falling Man” with a scalpel instead of a pen, using beautiful language to recapture the horror of the attacks on the World Trade Center. As the reader will discover, the psychic wounds of that day are still too fresh to have really left us really scarred. We have mostly, at best, scabbed over the wounds. The scarring is yet to come. With a degree of precision that could easily cause one to break out in a cold sweat of recollection, DeLillo peels off these scabs and exposes our collective wounds to fresh air.
“DeLillo has written “Falling Man” with a scalpel instead of a pen, using beautiful language to recapture the horror of the attacks on the World Trade Center. As the reader will discover, the psychic wounds of that day are still too fresh to have really left us really scarred. We have mostly, at best, scabbed over the wounds. The scarring is yet to come. With a degree of precision that could easily cause one to break out in a cold sweat of recollection, DeLillo peels off these scabs and exposes our collective wounds to fresh air.”
This is refreshing and long over due.