For Christmas I got a copy of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close By Jonathan Safran Foer. (Thanks Teresa!!) I saw the trailer for the movie, and since I'm a fan of reading books and seeing the movie, this book when to the top of my wish list.
Book Summary: The main narrator of the story is a nine-year-old child, Oskar Schell, an intellectually curious and sensitive child of Manhattan progressives whose father died two years earlier on 9/11. He is a pacifist, a vegan, musician (he plays the tambourine), academically-inclined, and above all, earnest. Oskar wanders New York,
searching for the meaning of a strange key he finds inside a blue vase
in his father's closet. Two additional narrators, Oskar's paternal
grandparents, tell the story of their childhood, courtship, marriage,
and separation before the birth of Oskar's father; much of their story
is presented as a series of letters addressed to Oskar or his father.
Tonight I finished the book and it was one of the best books I've read in a while. It's hard to describe it, I went through so many emotions, mostly sad, but it was still an enjoyable read. I would definitely recommend this book. And I can't wait to go see the movie.
Love Sandra!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea it was a book, too!
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