In the Shadow of no Towers

I have never read a graphic novel before, but I am really enjoying reading In The Shadows of no Towers. I think it gives you a little bit of a different perspective about 9/11. When it happened I read about it everytime I got on the internet, read the newspaper or in magazines. The tragic event of 9/11 was all over the media, but I had never really experienced it in this sort of a perspective. I can sense the fear in the characters and the panic when they are trying to find their daughter fearing that she had parished in the attack. I also think the way that there are drawings to go along with the text it allows you to not only read about what happened but you get to follow along with the drawings of the towers and the chaos that followed.

I had a little bit of a hard time reading the first part of the novel just because things are a bit scattered so I had difficulties trying to figure out which section to read next. I thought it jumped around a bit in the locations of the comics so I had to slow down and make sure I was following the right one and not jumping around from one to another. Once I figured it out it went a little smoother but there were times when I wasn't quite sure where I was suppose to go next to read since they were kind of jumbled together in places. Despite this confusion I did enjoy the novel and look forward to finishing it and I think I will probably re-read it since I think I missed some things in the first section.