REVIEWED BY MICHELLE GREEN
FICTION
Abbott's impressive first novel centers on the World Trade Center attacks as a catalyst for characters whose emotional boundaries disappear in a roil of toxic dust. An adulterer allows his wife to think he's dead; a wealthy matron tries to revive her inert marriage; an aging bohemian savoring an affair fears her sin sparked 9/11. Though too many narrators tax her story, Abbott's nuanced take on New York after the fall is spot-on, reminding us that love is about survival as well as loss.
