by AMY WALDMAN
A new novel Imagines the hysteria sparked by a Muslim-designed 9/11 memorial.
Amy Waldman doesn’t consider her debut novel, The Submission, to be “about” September 11, or so she says over lunch in Brooklyn. “To me it felt like a novel about America,” she explains. At first, this seems odd. In the book, Waldman imagines the public debate that might erupt if an American Muslim architect won an anonymous contest to design a memorial for the victims of a terrorist attack on Manhattan; her publisher, meanwhile, has timed its release to coincide with unveiling of the real memorial at Ground Zero.
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