RESILIENCE

The novel called Resilience is a first-person narrative by a construction worker who was at ground zero from day one until approximately ten months later when he tragically fell down an elevator shaft. Knowing that his construction skills were necessary, Tommy Magee kissed his family goodbye and entered the abyss.How, from a suburb of New York and without any official capacity, he was able to gain access to the site and became a volunteer and, ultimately, a construction worker on the fourteen-acre site known as the World Trade Center, is nothing short of a miracle. Resilience portrays the daily efforts to save any survivors, and then the painful slow process of finding the remains of so many.He participated in the original triage and morgue facility created on 9/11 and was part of the crew who cut out the last and final steel girder on May 30, 2002.He describes people who stepped up to accomplish superhuman effort to create sense out of the chaos that ensured post-9/11. His personal involvement with intimate features of the site of destruction is illuminating.During the course of his involvement, he met celebrities, politicians, and, most importantly, the heroic men and women of 911 who created a fellowship around scenes of rubble and debris located in what this novel refers to as The Pit, sharing his painful, at times comical, and always heroic moments in the pit. We experience his hope for tomorrow and the memories etched in his mind and soul of that fateful day we know as 9/11._,