Meaningful Adjacencies

Where were you on 9/11? Seven New Yorkers' lives become deeply connected by both the World Trade Center attack and the hands of fate. Melvin, an unfulfilled night janitor; Lisbeth, a bitter single mother; Eddy and Diana, devoted Ecuadorian siblings; Jazmin, a cynical beauty; and Richard and Otto, an estranged father and son-strangers to one another-each find themselves in danger that Tuesday morning. As the day unfolds, the decisions they make influence the trajectories of one another's lives. What begins as a fight for survival ultimately becomes a journey of self-forgiveness and finding the grace to grow. Along the way, we encounter memorable icons from New York City's rich cultural landscape, fact-based Twin Tower construction anecdotes remembering the innovation born within the buildings, Philippe Petit's wire-walking presented with startling angst as it was a well drafted rebellion of unknown proportions, the parallel life of a Minoru Yamasaki building presently standing in Saudi Arabia, and biopolitical issues in the representation of Powhatan, a peregrine falcon, and Hajji, a camel. The rebirth of a resurrection plant within the Rub' al Khali desert pays to the momentous ending. Meaningful Adjacencies is a contemporary fiction novel that interweaves the minute details of these seemingly ordinary character's lives during the twenty-four hours of September 11, 2001. Through their experiences, the novel offers a thoughtful exploration of finding meaning amidst tragedy.