Paper Airplanes - by Tabitha Forney (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>When Erin loses her husband on September 11, she thinks her life is lost, too. She surrenders to fate by diving into a self-destructive cocktail of grief, guilt, and substance abuse. But when the road to destiny presents a twist, she realizes she has one more chance to decide whether marriage means forever, or if there's life after happily ever after.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>It's the end of summer, 2001. Erin O'Connor has everything she's ever dreamed of: good friends, a high-powered career at a boutique Manhattan firm, and a husband she adores. They have plans for their life together: careers, children, and maybe even a house in the country. But life has other plans. Daniel works on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center. <p/>Erin is drinking margaritas on a beach in Mallorca, helping her best friend get over a breakup, when she hears a plane has crashed into Daniel's building. On a television at the smoky hotel bar, she watches his building collapse. She makes her way home with the help of a stranger named Alec, and once there, she haunts Ground Zero, nearby hospitals, and trauma centers, plastering walls and fences with missing-person flyers. But there's no trace of Daniel. <p/>After accepting Daniel's death, Erin struggles to get her life back on track but makes a series of bad decisions and begins to live her life in a self-destructive fog of booze and pills. It's not until she hits rock bottom that she realizes it's up to her to decide: Was her destiny sealed with Daniel's? Or is there life after happily ever after?<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction</b> <p/>". . . a love story about a marriage that's imperfect but everlasting, and about the guilt that comes when we survive and must keep on living."<br>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"On the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade towers attack comes an unflinching novel that explores the aftermath of the tragedy. Forney, whose own husband survived 9/11, takes us into the heart and mind of a widow whose husband jumped from a tower to escape the terrifying fires. Her life abruptly broken, Erin journeys through hell and back in this fictional account of a loved one left behind. An elegantly written tale that engages a gamut of emotions, this is a powerful debut by a gifted writer."<br><p></p>--Chris Cander, USA Today best-selling author of <i>The Weight of a Piano</i> <p/>"Surprising, poignant, hopeful and heartbreakingly honest in the best ways, <i>Paper Airplanes</i> is achingly hard to put down. Tabitha Forney is a literary force."<br>--Carrie Jones, <i>New York Times</i> and internationally best-selling author of the Need series <p/>"This haunting novel captivated me from the beginning. Forney pulled me in with her gorgeous prose and a heroine who made my heart ache. I rarely cry when I read, but <i>Paper Airplanes</i> had me sobbing. This is the kind of book that only comes around once in a lifetime."<br>--Laura Heffernan, internationally best-selling author of <i>Finding Tranquility</i> and <i>Anna's Guide to Getting Even</i> <p/>"The world changed irreparably in 2001, but most of us only knew the events from a distance. Forney takes us into the searing rupture of that day--and the unstable life that followed--with fortitude and insight, grace and eloquence, reckoning and ultimately peace. A tour de force."<br>--David Eagleman, author of <i>Sum</i> and <i>Livewired</i> <p/>"With depth and empathy, Tabitha Forney navigates the emotional wreckage left by tragedy, exploring questions of fate, self-destruction and ultimately hope. <i>Paper Airplanes</i> is a lovely and moving novel."<br>--Mark Haber, author of <i>Reinhardt's Garden</i> <p/>"As the Twin Towers fall on September 11th, Erin struggles through a world she neither recognizes nor understands. She begins a journey to find her missing husband and comes to realize that she has lost not only him, but herself. This is a compelling story of destruction and death and the slow process of self-discovery and redemption. It is a beautifully written debut novel that has the courage to face the worst nightmare imaginable, the loss of a great love."<br>--K. Blanton Brenner, author of <i>Appaloosa Sky</i><br><br>
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