Book: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
So I just finished reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. To summarize, it tells the story of a nine year-old boy, Oskar Schell, whose father died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Not too long after the funeral, Oskar finds a key that belonged to his father and makes it his mission to search New York City for the lock that matches this key. The story is told through Oskar, in first-person narration, which made the book especially immersive for me. Others I have talked to who read this book have described it as inspiring and enlightening. I thought it was well written and creative, but overall, I found it to be profoundly sad.
