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Year-End Fiction Wrap-Up: The 10 Best Novels Of 2011

Illustration: Birds wrap a book in red paper.

December 14, 2011 2011 was a terrific year for fiction — both from first-time novelists and much-decorated veterans. Maureen Corrigan's recommendations range from Karen Russell's dazzling debut, to David Foster Wallace's posthumously published novel, to what may be the Sept. 11 novel.

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Could 'Submission' Be America's Sept. 11 Novel?

Amy Waldman was co-chief of the South Asia bureau of The New York Times. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic and the Boston Review.

September 6, 2011 Reviewer Maureen Corrigan says Amy Waldman's debut novel might be the Sept. 11 novel — the one that finally does justice, artistically and historically, to the aftershocks of that day.

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The Fraught, Fictional Road To A Sept. 11 Memorial

The "Tribute in Light" interim memorial to the World Trade  Center twin towers was first lit six months to the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In The Submission, Amy Waldman imagines the controversy surrounding a fictional memorial to the attacks.

August 15, 2011 Amy Waldman's new novel, The Submission, centers on an anonymous competition to pick the design for a Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero — and the furor that erupts when it's revealed that the winning designer is an American Muslim.

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