![]() ![]() They both grew up in Dresden and experienced the fire bombing in WWII. A huge part of this novel is about this grandmother – and about his grandfather. ![]() Since his father’s death, Oscar has been living with his mother and with his grandmother living across the street. I love how he sometimes just rambles on and on about things he knows – and even sometimes about things he wishes he didn’t know. He starts going to them one by one and has lots of interesting encounters but doesn’t seem to have any luck with finding the right Black. Oscar decides to find the lock this key fits into and he goes about this by visiting every person named Black in the phone book. Oscar and his father used to play all kinds of games so when Oscar finds a key in an envelope labeled Black in a blue vase in his father’s closet, he thinks it’s one last treasure hunt. This is the story of young Oscar Schell, a nine-year-old boy who lost his father in the 9-11 attack. I don’t think I can do it justice but I’m going to try to write something that can recommend this novel to others so you too can be blown away by this fantastic novel. Jonathan Safran Foer painted such incredible pictures with his words and I was just blown away by it. I do not have words to really express how great this book was. ![]() ‘/…/ one hundred ceilings had become one hundred floors, which had become nothing.’ (p. ![]()
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