Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. The tentative romantic feelings that develop between Kyle and the girl read more like a detour than an integral aspect of the plot, but they underscore the uncertainty, bewilderment, and grasped-for sense of connection during the immediate aftermath of the attacks. As Polisner delves into one of the most emotionally wrenching days in modern American history, Kyle’s narration gives a play-by-play-like overview that’s frequently interrupted by short, free-verse passages that reflect the girl’s confused mental state.
Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of. Referred to as “the girl” throughout most of the novel, due to her amnesia, her presence adds a dimension of mystery to this story. 288 pages On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. While on the bridge, Kyle runs into a girl covered in ash and wearing angel wings, and takes her home. This somber yet hopeful novel from Polisner ( The Summer of Letting Go) begins on the morning of September 11, 2001, with her teenage protagonist, Kyle Donahue, fleeing across the Brooklyn Bridge, worrying about his first-responder father, his mother who is flying home from California, and his incapacitated uncle who needs his care.
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