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These aren’t so obvious as to feel contrived and they add a layer of connectiveness to the two stories.

Richard sings (p 240) / Reshmina’s grandmother sings (p 241).

The tower falls (p 225) / a ceiling caves in (p 231).

Reshmina descends towards her village (p 164) / Brandon heads down the stairs (p 165).

Passon calls the Taliban (p 151) / Brandon calls his father (p 152).

Similar interplay happens between the narratives. I like the way that both characters are struck by awesome visuals at the same time. It was easy to see only the village you lived in and not the wider world if you never stopped to look up. The enormous mountains always humbled her.

Reshmina paused at the top of a ridge to look out at the mountains that swept through Afghanistan and into China. There are some neat narrative connections too, where the actions of Brandon and Reshmina kind of mirror each other:īrandon slipped sideways through the gap and froze.īrandon was staring straight out into open sky.

The connections between the stories become clearer, including the fact that the soldier that Reshmina helps is actually Brandon as a grown up and the ways that the 9/11 events led to the extended situation in Afghanistan. Alternating chapters advance each story, with tension building along the way. Then the narrative jumps forward exactly eighteen years to Reshmina, who lives in Afghanistan amid the conflicts between the Taliban, the American military, and the Afghan National Army. The chapter ends with the revelation of the date as the two head upstairs. 11 attacks.GROUND ZERO opens by introducing Brandon as he accompanies his dad to work. first knocked them from power in the wake of the Sept. "But they’re also incredibly difficult for the people affected by them, because it brings back the moment they got the phone call, it brings back the instant they got the news, no matter how years go by.”īiden - who praised Bush's remarks about the nation's response to 9/11 as "a genuinely good speech about who we are" - was marking the milestone anniversary, his first as president, weeks after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan nearly two decades after the U.S. “These memorials are really important," Biden said at a stop at the local fire department in Shanksville.

He did not deliver official remarks at any of the events. He later participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon. Bush and Vice President Kamala Harris both delivered remarks, participating in a wreath-laying ceremony there before visiting the local fire department. He traveled next to the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where former President George W.