Meaningful Adjacencies
by A.M. Cleven
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Where were you on 9/11?
Seven New Yorkers' lives become deeply connected by both the World Trade Center attack and the hands of fate. Melvin, an unfulfilled night janitor; Lisbeth, a bitter single mother; Eddy and Diana, devoted Ecuadorian siblings; Jazmin, a cynical beauty; and Richard and Otto, an estranged father and son—strangers to one another—each find themselves in danger that Tuesday morning. As the day unfolds, the decisions they make influence the trajectories of one another’s lives. What begins as a fight for survival ultimately becomes a journey of self-forgiveness and finding the grace to grow.
Along the way, we encounter memorable icons from New York City's rich cultural landscape, fact-based Twin Tower construction anecdotes remembering the innovation born within the buildings, Philippe Petit’s wire-walking presented with startling angst as it was a well drafted rebellion of unknown proportions, the parallel life of a Minoru Yamasaki building presently standing in Saudi Arabia, and biopolitical issues in the representation of Powhatan, a peregrine falcon, and Hajji, a camel. The rebirth of a resurrection plant within the Rub' al Khali desert pays to the momentous ending.
Meaningful Adjacencies is a contemporary fiction novel that interweaves the minute details of these seemingly ordinary character's lives during the twenty-four hours of September 11, 2001. Through their experiences, the novel offers a thoughtful exploration of finding meaning amidst tragedy.
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