Sophia C. reviewed on 10/27/2010 + 289 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

September 11th is the 800 pound gorilla in this intense story. Told through a range of third person vantage points which intersect in a strip club in south Florida during the four days before the infamous attacks, there is a ominous sense of a storm about to hit. Dubus's strength is his ability to realistically portray the perspectives of a variety of characters, from a three year old girl to a young Saudi man; a small part of the action occurs in a location which is very familiar to me but seems so different told through the latter's perspective. The action is front-loaded into the first 24 hours or so, which seemed saturated by the overlapping accounts of the same events, but picks up two-thirds of the way through. Nonetheless, it was a fine and intricate character study of some very flawed people trying to do their best which I was sad to see come to an end.

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