American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center YA_Gift_Guide from the author of Untangled

from the author of Untangled

"Eliot…is one of our only authentic poets…[The Waste Land is] one triumph after another

This entertaining and impactful memoir is filled with authentic sacrifice

author of How It Feels to Float

breaks his ribs not once but twice

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center YA_Gift_Guide from the author of UntangledSelected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun Times Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round the clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and those who improvised the recovery effort day by day, and in the process reinvented themselves,