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jeanner222
Mar 20, 2013jeanner222 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
It has been two years since the terrorist attack on 9/11. A jure debates the merits of two memorials submitted to the contest; one of these will be erected to memorialize those lost on 9/11. The jury member who represents the families who lost loved ones in the attack is strident in her defense of a garden memorial. She convinces other jurors to vote for the design. And when the garden design is determined to be the winning design, the name of the submission’s architect is revealed: Mohammad Khan. Can Americans/New Yorkers accept and embrace a 9/11 memorial designed by a man with a Muslim name? Even if he is an American? Can an American with such a name be treated in post-9/11 America? People from all sides of the issue will weigh in on the memorial and its architect. Obviously, there will be controversy. This novel received a lot of hype, but I’m just not impressed by it. I guess the plot could have been interesting, if it had not been so obvious. The characters are one-dimensional, and I just could not force myself to care about them.