Alison R. Lockwood: June 2017

“Startlingly innovative.”

“An unforgettable chorus of lost voices.”

“One of the best fictional explorations I’ve read of the ‘meaning’ of 9/11.”

Arson. That’s the official ruling when the Parramore Plaza, the city’s most iconic landmark, goes up in flames. Witnesses see a janitor carry a package into the building. The man had just been fired. It’s an open-and-shut case. With no investigation to cover, reporter Juni Bruder is left to write about the dead. Her interviews with families of the victims—office workers, tourists, first responders—wins a Pulitzer. She’s dead within days. Her grieving brother, sorting through her papers, tries to solve the mystery that consumed her: What drove a decorated military veteran to destroy so many lives?

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