Project Rebirth, Courtney E. Martin
Project Rebirth, Courtney E. Martin
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Project Rebirth
Survival and the Strength of the Human Spirit from 9/11 Survivors

Author: Courtney E. Martin, Dr. Robin Stern

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/18/2011


Synopsis

The images of the burning towers, the heartbroken friends building memorials, the minute-by-minute accounts of the horrors of that day—all are indelibly etched on our collective consciousness. But what of those left behind after 9/11? What have they, and we, learned from the gift of time?

In Project Rebirth, a psychologist and a journalist examine the lives of eight people who were directly affected by the events of September 11, 2001. Written concurrently with the filming of a forthcoming documentary, it is uniquely positioned to tackle the questions raised about how people react in the face of crippling grief, how you maintain hope for a future when your life as you knew it is destroyed, and the amazing ability of humans to focus on the positive aspects of day-to-day living in the face of tragedy.

The project follows people dedicated to rebuilding, both physically and emotionally. Spirituality, resilience, and hope are at the center of their stories. Brian, who lost his firefighter brother, spent two years working at Ground Zero and then helped to rebuild the PATH train station. Tanya, who lost her fiancé on 9/11, finds new love, new life, and joy as a mother in the years following, all doors she thought closed to her forever.

Not a book that recounts the events of that day, and not a book about grief, Project Rebirth is a book about resilience and finding inner peace.

About Courtney E. Martin

Courtney E. Martin is the author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters and Do It Anyway, and coauthor of The Naked Truth and Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. A 2002 recipient of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, Newsday, and the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim

This book shared the stories of specific people who were affected by losses of 9/11 in different ways and how they all grieve in their own ways. Tremendous stories.......more

Goodreads review by Nikki

This is a great companion piece to the documentary. Three additional people's stories are told and while some are more compelling, I feel like this gives a great insight about grief, loss, and recovery. The main take away from the book is that grief and rebirth are intensely personal and there is no......more

Goodreads review by Steve

I feel a bit guilty to be honest as I wanted to love it but I couldn't. It was just too disjointed and a little preachy in its conclusion. Half of the stories were beautiful moving portraits of sons, lovers, husbands, wives losing their loved on in 9/11. The lad who's mother worked for Cantor Fitzgera......more

Surprised this wasn't more compelling. Borrowed thru MORE, so I had to return it in a month. Maybe if I could draw it out longer I could've read it. The stories just didn't grab me like most 9/11 stories do. Hope to retry it in the future.........more