Our One Book, One Zip Code community wide reading selection for 2011 is “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer. Told in the precocious voice of 9-year-old Oskar Schell, this highly original and moving story is full of the boy’s longing for his father, killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Oskar, a self-proclaimed inventor, actor, tambourine player and scientist, is on a quest to find the lock that fits a mysterious key found in his father’s closet in an envelope labeled “Black.” Funny, experimental, heartbreaking and uplifting all at the same time, Oskar’s journey explores what it means to go on living after such great loss.
