Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

For attendees of the event at the Morrill Memorial Library in Norwood on May 18, please choose in-store pickup and we'll be happy to bring your books to the event for you.

“The 9/11 book we’ve been waiting for . . . Zuckoff has rendered that world-changing day on a scale both intimate and monumental. This is narrative history at its very best.”— Cokie Roberts

From the New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours, Frozen in Time, and Lost in Shangri-La comes an unforgettable, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative of 9/11.

In the days after the 9/11 attacks, then-Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff wrote a series of pieces about victims and their families. After more than 15 years of meticulous reporting, the New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours masterfully wove together multiple strands of what happened in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, PA, into a mesmerizing account of what people went through, minute-by-minute.

Rather than focus on the banality of evil shown by the terrorists and their handlers, this book gives voice to the people most poignantly affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: the young out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; the veteran stuck in the inferno in the Pentagon; the firefighter who was among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; the innocent office workers going about their day in the World Trade Center; and the families flying across country to see loved ones, all caught up in the terrible attacks.

A stirring tribute to all the extraordinary-ordinary people who were faced with the worst day in modern American history, Fall and Rise shocks, breaks hearts, and inspires love and admiration for the triumph of the human spirit in the face of terrible events.