Here is what I had to say on Amazon today about the book A Widow's Walk : A Memoir of 9/11, by Marian Fontana. This is the book I mentioned last month having seen excerpted in Vanity Fair.
And by the way, I made a stupid mistake in something I said about it at that time, based on a too-quick reading of the excerpt: Fontana's husband Dave did not die, so far as we know, trying to save a specific child. That was just the way she, as a firefighter's wife, had imagined getting the news one day. Never believing it would ever really be true, that she would lose him.
But he did die trying to save people--men, women and children--and Ann Coulter did question the courage of New Yorkers. So although I was wrong about that specific, I was right about the particular, namely, there's something really wrong with Ann Coulter.
But there's not much wrong with Marian Fontana as a writer. Go read my review, and then read her book and see.
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