The Submission

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Praise for THE SUBMISSION
"The Submission is a wrenching panoramic novel about the politics of
grief in the wake of 9/11. Amy Waldman captures a wildly diverse city
wrestling with itself in the face of a shared trauma like no other in its
history." —RICHARD PRICE, author of Freedomlandand Lush Life
"Amy Waldman writes like a possessed angel. She also has the emo-
tional smarts to write a story about Islam in America that fearlessly
lasers through all our hallucinatory politics with elegant concision. It's a
literary breakthrough that reads fast and breaks your heart."
—LORRAINE ADAMS, author of Harbor and The Room and the Chair
"Frighteningly plausible and tightly wound . . . Waldman addresses
with a refreshing frankness thorny moral questions and ethical iro-
nies without resorting to breathless hyperbole."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Waldman brilliantly delineates the legacy of 9/11 The Bonfire of the
Vanities for our time." —DONNA SEAMAN, Booklist... Tovább

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Praise for THE SUBMISSION
"The Submission is a wrenching panoramic novel about the politics of
grief in the wake of 9/11. Amy Waldman captures a wildly diverse city
wrestling with itself in the face of a shared trauma like no other in its
history." —RICHARD PRICE, author of Freedomlandand Lush Life
"Amy Waldman writes like a possessed angel. She also has the emo-
tional smarts to write a story about Islam in America that fearlessly
lasers through all our hallucinatory politics with elegant concision. It's a
literary breakthrough that reads fast and breaks your heart."
—LORRAINE ADAMS, author of Harbor and The Room and the Chair
"Frighteningly plausible and tightly wound . . . Waldman addresses
with a refreshing frankness thorny moral questions and ethical iro-
nies without resorting to breathless hyperbole."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Waldman brilliantly delineates the legacy of 9/11 The Bonfire of the
Vanities for our time." —DONNA SEAMAN, Booklist (starred review)
TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11, A DAZZLING,
KALEIDOSCOPIC NOVEL REIMAGINES
ITS AFTERMATH
A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memo-
rial 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 pre-
amble 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 se-
lection leaks to the press, she finds herself un-
der pressure from outraged family members
and in collision with hungry journalists, wary
activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow ju-
rors, 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 Submis-
sion is a piercing and resonant novel by an im-
portant new talent. Vissza