And part of Safran Foer's ambition is to link September 11 with the greatest American atrocities that have involved the devastation of cities. He, in turn, is haunted to the point of disabling trauma, by the fact that his long-ago true love, the grandmother's sister, died, pregnant with his child, in the fire bombing of Dresden. She lives in an apartment nearby, is his father's mother and her husband (a sculptor who connected with her only by writing things down and pointing to words he had written) deserts her before Oskar's father is born, though he comes back in the wake of his death.
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