I’m all for reading a good ‘love among the ruins’ novel. A doomed couple, pledged to others, meet in the backdrop of war and fall hopelessly in love. No matter how much they try, no matter who it hurts, they can’t stay away from each other. Works well for a Civil War setting (Gone With the Wind) or World War ll (Suite Francaise) but I’m not ready for such a tale to be told among the ‘ruins’ of 9/11. Maybe it’s still to recent, too raw, to imagine a setting such as this for a couple of well to do New Yorkers, both stuck in unhappy marriages, to meet and fall in love while working at a soup kitchen at ground zero. Corrine and Luke spend their evenings serving coffee to rescue workers and cops while lusting after each other. Luke is a well to do banker whose wife, a beautiful socialite, screws around on him and his daughter, 14 going on 25, is living the fast life in Manhattan. Corrine, the mom of twins, has a husband who has also cheated on her and is moving unhappily through her life. Until 9/11 happened. Secret trysts, stolen trips all the stuff of illicit affairs. Yes, I poured through the book and read it in 4 days instead of 7, but I still didn't feel good about it. Not yet, maybe not ever.
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