As someone with a hyperfixation on 9/11 and how it has changed our lives and perception of history, I found this graphic novel to be a haunted and thoughtful look into the attacks and their aftermath.

📚 The Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks
🖌️Author: Don Brown
📝P.g.: 128
🖋️Publication: @harper360ya
🗂️Genre: History Comic

5/⭐️

📌Summary:

The consequences of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, both political and personal, were vast, and continue to reverberate today. Don Brown brings his journalistic eye and attention to moving individual stories to help teens contextualize what they already know about the day, as well as broaden their understanding of the chain of events that occurred in the attack’s wake.

📌Review:
This unique graphic novel explores the aftermath of the tragic even of 9/11, in depth and what people had to ensure.

It constitutes a masterpiece of the modern graphic novel world and it sheds some light to all those affected.

It’s an essential read for everyone.

📌I would like to thank @harper360ya or the free copy.

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Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers.

Even though this is a quick read, it is very impactful as a graphic novel. The abstract drawings vividly portray the fear experienced as we follow the story of the tower's demise. We see the impact of the fallen towers of the World Trade Center on the people affected and the aftermath that surrounds it. This is a great way for the younger generation to quickly understand the events - from the survival of the workers to those who participated in the rescue efforts. It's a book about the great loss and devastation caused by the events of 9/11.

Marketed at teens, I think this is a really informative graphic novel depicting the events of 9/11.

It shows a really horrific event in an easy to take in, but also easy ro understand way.

Enjoyable, if sad, read.

It’s shocking to realize that the audience for this YA graphic novel was not born when 9/11 happened. I guess I’ve reached that age.

This is by no means a complete history of the attacks, but it does serve as a good outline of the gray and grim aftermath. There were a few miracles in those days and weeks after, but even they occurred with hints of tragedy and sorrow, almost serving to highlight the depths of the loss.