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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Bookmarked: A Monthly Book Club)
Phil and Marisa Serafini (@serafinitv) unpack Foer’s ambitious 2005 novel about nine-year-old Oskar Schell, a mysterious key, and a city learning to live with grief after 9/11. We dig into Foer’s background and why he felt compelled to write about 9/11), the book’s inventive form (child narrator, epistolary letters, visual experiments, and that unforgettable flip-book ending), and the way a simple quest opens doors to connection across New York—Mr. Black, Abby, and the grandparents’ parallel love story. We explore big themes—loss, unanswered questions, and the search for closure. Up next in…
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