Shelfology Book Pairing

by Nicole Krauss

"'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love ... ' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives ..."--Back cover.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

"Brings together, for the first time, two works from an accomplished author--including Everything Is Illuminated, which tells the story of a young Jewish American's journey into an unexpected past, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which looks at the 9/11 tragedy through the eyes of a precocious boy"--Publisher.