Includes index

Signs and wonders -- Impact -- What is Middletown? -- First responders -- Rising to the occasion -- The not knowing -- The knowing -- The money nightmare -- Hypervigilance -- Picking up stones at ground zero -- Falling from grace -- "Am ... I ... going ... crazy?" -- Comforting the children -- Christmas favor -- Muslims in Middletown -- Anger rising -- Feeling the hole -- The grieving spiral -- Stirrings of new life -- Passing the torch -- The toll -- Fragile progress -- The anniversary cloud -- Just four moms from New Jersey -- Lives under construction -- Post-traumatic stress in the year after -- The second Christmas -- The recovering ground zero family -- The arc of renewal -- Four moms fight for homeland security -- Waking up from the suburban dream

A portrait of Middletown, the New Jersey town that suffered the highest death toll in the World Trade Center terrorist attack, describes how the inhabitants dealt with their grief, anger, and trauma following September 11th

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