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"Heroic Measures" by Jill Ciment

by Kay Fair

Heroic measures is one of those novels that writers will love. It reminds us what a true artist of the craft can do in taking a seemingly trivial and peripheral story and make us actually care about it.

This story centers around an elderly couple in New York City, attempting to sell their apartment amidst the personal crisis of their dachshund's pending surgery and the city-wide crisis of a possible terrorist attack in the Midtown tunnel.

By all logic, this novel should have been dry and spiritless and leave the reader feeling completely unsatisfied with its somewhat abrupt conclusion. However, Jill Ciment makes us care. She involves and invests us in this peek into the life of a couple which spans a mere weekend.

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