
I, too, have been feeling the need to read about the people affected by 9/11. Immediately after 9/11 there was a large number of books that were published, and I read many of them. After watching continuous news coverage, I felt somehow connected to people like Lyz Glick and Lisa Beamer who lost their husbands on United Flight 93. Both women went on to write memoirs that I enjoyed reading.

On Top of the World : Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal by Tom Barbash gives greater understanding of this company who lost 658 employees on 9/11. One of those employees, Lauren Manning, who was burned on over eighty percent of her body, miraculously recovered and reclaimed her life. Her story, Love Greg and Lauren, a compilation of her husband, Greg's, emails to friends and family chronicling his wife's fight for life, was published after the tragedy. Now, Lauren has written her own book, Unmeasured Strength, about not only the accident but the past decade as she worked hard to become the woman she is now. I have just purchased this one from Amazon and am anxious to read it; Manning is an amazing woman!

On Top of the World : Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal by Tom Barbash gives greater understanding of this company who lost 658 employees on 9/11. One of those employees, Lauren Manning, who was burned on over eighty percent of her body, miraculously recovered and reclaimed her life. Her story, Love Greg and Lauren, a compilation of her husband, Greg's, emails to friends and family chronicling his wife's fight for life, was published after the tragedy. Now, Lauren has written her own book, Unmeasured Strength, about not only the accident but the past decade as she worked hard to become the woman she is now. I have just purchased this one from Amazon and am anxious to read it; Manning is an amazing woman!


While there is no way I can read these books one after the other, each fall I find myself revisiting that day. Our beautiful fall weather here this past week is certainly reminiscent of the cloudless blue sky in New York ten years ago. As a Midwesterner, 9/11 at times feels remote to me, a small-town girl. I know that reading a book about this day cannot possibly replicate the experience, but it allows me to see and feel what many others are still dealing with a decade later.
The number of books being published to comemorate this anniversary is great. A few others on my radar:
Where You Left by Jennifer Gardner-Trulson
Where You Left by Jennifer Gardner-Trulson
After The Fall: New Yorkers Remember Septemer 2001 and the Year that Followed by Mary Marshall Clark
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