Let’s get into it…Īfter Towers Falling, I wasn’t all that eager to jump back into a 9/11 story. As they take shelter from the chaos in Kyle’s family’s apartment, Kyle and the girl rely on each other for comfort and stability, growing closer even as the future seems ever more uncertain. His father is a New York City detective heading for ground zero and his mother and sister are stranded out-of-town, so Kyle is left alone with only his uncle, whose communication and mobility are severely limited by a recent motorcycle accident, and this strange girl who doesn’t remember anything. Amidst the chaos, he spots an ash-covered girl wearing costume wings and makes a split-second decision to bring her home with him.
Gae Polisner’s The Memory of Things begins with sixteen-year-old Kyle fleeing across the Brooklyn Bridge on the morning of 9/11. (I signed up for the 50 Book Pledge and I’m doing a GoodReads challenge, so I’ve got to keep the ball rolling). I’d never heard of it before, but its description was intriguing and I was looking for a quick read to get my reading momentum going for the new year, so I started it. The Memory of Things is one of the books I received for Christmas.
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