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The Submission
by Amy Waldman
This is a story about a Muslim man winning the design contest for the 9/11 memorial. The world is turned upside down with rage when families of the dead and the rest of the world get a hold of this knowledge, because clearly this man (born in America) has bad intentions. The best part of this book is how the author goes between the key players in the story; the Muslim "Mo", a women who lost her husband and is a member of the jury, a Bangladesh women whose husband dies, an anti-Muslim extremest brother of a firefighter and newspaper columnist. It is a quick read and evokes memories and emotions of 9/11.
Even though this is a work of fiction, I believe the misconceptions that Americans have about Islam rings true in real life. People of the world have been fighting over differences in religion forever, it pains me that we still fight and that people can not open their minds to accept all people.
Even though this is a work of fiction, I believe the misconceptions that Americans have about Islam rings true in real life. People of the world have been fighting over differences in religion forever, it pains me that we still fight and that people can not open their minds to accept all people.