The Number of Missing — Adam Berlin

Beautifully raw and honest, Adam Berlin's novel follows two characters through the long darkness in New York after 9/11. This is about the running, the drinking, the standing still, and the unquantifiable missing. Berlin's book is shattering, real, first-person history, made intimate by a narrator forced to stare at himself against the hole of Ground Zero.
-----James Frey,
author of A Million Little Pieces

The Number of Missing is a masterful re-invention of the post-war novel for the 21st Century. The World Trade Center is the battlefield: one young man dies a horrific death while his best friend witnesses the attack from a park bench a safe distance away. Ghosts haunt the guilty conscience, and to be alive is not necessarily to be among the living. The prose is lean and the air is thick. Adam Berlin might well be the Norman Mailer of his generation.
-----Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic Route