Book: Middletown, America

Worthwhile This is an account of one town's experience of 9/11. Middletown, NJ had the highest number of people killed in the towers of any town in the country. One group in particular that the book talks about is a small group of widows who pushed the US government to do more to understand the 9/11 plot and prevent future terrorist attacks. It's a well written and interesting account from some who were in the towers during the attacks, the widows, the organizations established to help the families of those killed (sometimes in surprising ways), the police who worked to recover all the remains from the site after the disaster, and more. It's a surprisingly broad and interesting perspective. I guess the one thing that struck me as missing was male widows. Each of the many widows discussed in the book was female, and that struck me as odd. Perhaps there weren't any male widows in Middletown specifically, or perhaps it was an author bias. I don't know. But it was still an interesting and worthwhile read.