The Submission: A Novel

from lalbro

Read for my work book club, this is not a book that was on my TBR. And so I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed it. Focused on identity, and who shapes ones' identity, and when your individual identity becomes emblematic of a group's identity, I found this book quite enjoyable. The Rashomon ...

from Mathenam

This book should be at the top of the list for bookclubs over the next few months. There are so many issues and themes to discuss. When a jury in NYC is selected to choose a submission for a 9/11 memorial, they are shocked to find that the winning choice is a Muslim-American. Chaos ensues as the ...

from rainpebble

There are so many good reviews of this book that I am just going to put down a few thoughts. I thought the book good and I think it would be especially good for a book group or book club as I think it would generate a great deal of lively discussion. I also felt that we were left hanging in a few...

from kidzdoc

Two years after 9/11, a jury meets in Gracie Mansion to vote on the winning design of a Ground Zero memorial, to commemorate the people who were killed on that horrible day. The members, selected by the governor of New York, have narrowed the 5000 anonymous entries to two, and after some arm twis...

from mojomomma

I read this simply because an honors course at my university is using it as a text for a class on the significance of memorials. I very much enjoyed all the different point of view Waldman explored--the architect who submitted the winning design, the head of the memorial jury, the widow who was t...