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Meaningful Adjacencies

Meaningful Adjacencies

Cleven, Melody

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798199020015
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
a heartfelt and deeply considered work that finds power in the individual stories it tells, and the message is moving: Even in moments of profound loss, human beings continue to reach for one another. An affecting portrayal of ordinary people responding to extraordinary circumstances. - Kirkus Reviews

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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