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One Tuesday morning

Pages
667
Published
2003
Language
English

Synopsis

Jake Bryan is a firefighter who wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of the morning that put him there. The last thing he knew was the World Trade Center coming down on him and the other firefighters. He does not recall climbing the stairs of the south tower with his team to reach trapped victims, or being blasted out of the building.

He also does not recognise the woman at his bedside who says she is his wife. Jamie Bryan is determined to bring his memory back, and with it the family life they built with their small daughter, Sierra.

There is a complication. Jamie has never shared one part of herself with Jake: his deep faith in God. To help him recover who he was, she has to help him find that faith again. Jake's own prayer for his wife, offered before the attack, is about to have a reach neither of them could have imagined.

This is a Christian love story set against the events of September 11, 2001. It is told with tenderness and a measured, emotional tone, and it keeps its focus on one marriage while honouring the loss and the heroism of that day. Faith is central to the plot and to the way the characters understand what happens to them.

How it reads

Prose complexity 3/10
Content warnings (1)
Trauma