The Falling Man by Don DeLillo. It's about the trauma of 9/11 from the vantage point of a corporate lawyer who was in the north tower, his estranged wife that he sort of reconciles with after leaving the wreckage, another woman whose briefcase he took in a fugue state and later forms a relationship with, and a hijacker on Flight 11 who is a protege of Mohamed Atta.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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