"After Ground Zero: Everyday Americans and the Unhealed Scars of 9/11"

Talk and book sale and signing with author Mike Kelly

About the author: Mike Kelly is an award-winning columnist for The Record in New Jersey and for USA Today. He is also the author of three, critically acclaimed non-fiction books: Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town; Fresh Jersey: Stories from an Altered State, and The Bus on Jaffa Road: A Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice.

About the book: This first-hand reporting spanning from Ground Zero on the day of the 9/11 attacks through decades of trauma and healing offers a stark reminder of just how forcefully the events of September 11 and the war on terror have impacted the lives of countless Americans.

Mike Kelly was across the Hudson River when the two jets crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers in downtown Manhattan on September 11, 2001. His immediate goal was to get to the scene and gather some first-hand reporting to file on deadline. But this was just the first step of a decades-long journey through another kind of rubble, through the pain left behind and the unhealed scars of people's lives in the wake of a terrorist attack.