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A review by dame_samara
September 11, 2001: The Day the World Changed Forever by Héloïse Chochois, Baptiste Bouthier
5.0
It feels weird even now as an adult to realize that there are other adults who weren't alive at all during 9/11 because it is something I remember quite well from when I was a small child. So to read something as a depiction of History feels odd to me.
But this was an amazing work to read especially as we are coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Baptiste Bouthier does an amazing job of capturing the humanity of the situation, while also showing us an outside perspective that is hard to find in the US of what 9/11 looked like to others.
While also taking time to touch on very real things like the United States past in the Middle East, and the fact that it is not uncommon to find conspiracies around this event.
I would definitely recommend this book, it does a good job of representing the events without being traumatizing as some pieces of media can be. (Being forced to watch people jump from the towers in High School is something that still haunts me to this day and I do not believe is an appropriate way to teach history)
But this was an amazing work to read especially as we are coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Baptiste Bouthier does an amazing job of capturing the humanity of the situation, while also showing us an outside perspective that is hard to find in the US of what 9/11 looked like to others.
While also taking time to touch on very real things like the United States past in the Middle East, and the fact that it is not uncommon to find conspiracies around this event.
I would definitely recommend this book, it does a good job of representing the events without being traumatizing as some pieces of media can be. (Being forced to watch people jump from the towers in High School is something that still haunts me to this day and I do not believe is an appropriate way to teach history)