Research Catalog

Title

Middletown, America : one town's passage from trauma to hope / Gail Sheehy.

Author

Sheehy, Gail

Publication

New York : Random House, c2003.

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Details

Description

xxv, 412 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map; 25 cm.

Summary

A portrait of Middletown, the New Jersey town that suffered the highest death toll in the World Trade Center terrorist attack, describes how the inhabitants dealt with their grief, anger, and trauma following September 11th.

Subject

• 2001
• Victims of terrorism > Middletown
• Terrorism victims' families > Middletown
• Middletown (N.J.) > Social conditions
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Signs and wonders -- Impact -- What is Middletown? -- First responders -- Rising to the occasion -- The not knowing -- The knowing -- The money nightmare -- Hypervigilance -- Picking up stones at ground zero -- Falling from grace -- "Am ... I ... going ... crazy?" -- Comforting the children -- Christmas favor -- Muslims in Middletown -- Anger rising -- Feeling the hole -- The grieving spiral -- Stirrings of new life -- Passing the torch -- The toll -- Fragile progress -- The anniversary cloud -- Just four moms from New Jersey -- Lives under construction -- Post-traumatic stress in the year after -- The second Christmas -- The recovering ground zero family -- The arc of renewal -- Four moms fight for homeland security -- Waking up from the suburban dream.

ISBN

0375508627 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003046694

OCLC

52058206

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library