Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Check out this book by Jonathan Safran Foer. It made me laugh on the first page. It's about a little boy named Oskar Schell who ventures through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that corresponds to a key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Oskar is only 9 years old, but he's an inventor, a tambourine player, an actor, a francophile, a pacifist... He meets an eclectic group of people on his journey who have all survived something in their own way. To quote the Washington Post: "The tragedy of September 11 has made Oskar older than his years, but in Foer's tender portrayal the grief that weighs him down makes children of us all." Check it out at http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Extremely-Loud-and-Incredibly-Close/Jonathan-Safran-Foer/e/9780618711659/?itm=1&USRI=extremely+loud+and+incredibly+close