Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin was the 2009 winner of The National Book Award for Fiction. The novel focuses on the lives of various New Yorkers on the day in 1974 when French trapeze artist Phillip Petit walked a tight rope between the World Trade Center towers. McCann has called his book an act of hope written, in part, as a response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.