“The Staten Island family whose voices tell this story in turns are so real I feel like I’ve been to their house and eaten their baked ziti. Yes, it’s a 9/11 novel, but maybe it’s exactly the right kind of 9/11 novel: earnest, unabashedly sentimental, real and not manipulatively tear-jerking. SI native Joyce knows what he’s talking about, and how to talk about it.” See her picks here.