The Submission by Amy Waldman

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A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of the September 11th attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner’s name–and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. “A coherent, timely and fascinating examination of a grieving America’s relationship with itself,” The Washington Post.