Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer

If you liked Everything is Illuminated, then you can stop reading this blog and go get Foster’s second book. If you did not like EiI (yes, I know many of you did not like this as one of last year’s top picks), then this book is a second chance to try Foer without the linguistic challenge of a Russian narrator. This book is set right after 9/11 and follows a 9-year-old’s quest to figure out some things he finds in his deceased father’s effects. In the same style of Foer’s earlier work, this book uses multiple narrators, answering machine messages, unlikely friends, and letters to tell an unusual story. Recommended to me by Jenne. Reccommended to you by me.