One of the best books I've read this year: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. And now I'm also hooked on Authors on Tour, podcasts of authors reading and discussing their work at the Tattered Cover Book Store.Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.
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