Falling Man begins on September 11 in the smoke & ash of the burning towers In the days & the years following we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals Theirs are lives choreographed by loss by grief & by the enormous force of history From these intimate portraits Don De Lillo shifts to an extrapolated vision he charts the way the events have reconfigured our emotional landscape our memory & our perception of the world Falling Man is an unforgettable novel at once cathartic & beautiful & heartbreaking