Young adult author Jewell Parker Rhodes said, “One of the things that I discovered is that a lot of adults were still so traumatized, are still so traumatized, by 9/11 that they don’t want to talk about it. So, in fact, when I was writing ‘Towers Falling,’ it was a very hard journey.”
Rhodes sees herself among the writers and educators finally beginning to grapple with 9/11. “If you look at 9/11 literature, we’re building a canon that you can start in elementary and all the way up, move to more increasingly complicated, well-told stories about the legacy of 9/11 and the time that we spent in Afghanistan,” she said.
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