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The story, at its core, follows the transformation of character of Henry Merceau in his attempts to court Uma Hawkins while the two are “stowed away” in the surreal climate of the immediate post-9/11 grounding in the beautiful landscape of northeastern Canada. However, Airspace is not simply a love story in an untimely setting; rather, a commentary on how the removal of the real and routine, and subsequent replacement with the surreal and unfamiliar brings out the primary elements of character to which each individual subscribes. As the facades of the characters fade away and return again in the brief few days in between the attacks and when they are finally allowed to return to the United States, there is opened a small window directly into the elemental natures of the characters—some searching desperately for order and logic, others embracing their “marooned”
Throughout, this story investigates important treatments of the profound misperceptions Americans unwittingly possess of their global impact. Airspace witnesses terrorism not as the byproduct of an arrogant religious Jihad, but rather as a last and the desperate measure by displaced individuals who are starving and afraid and without alternative for the overwhelming and debilitating poverty in their lives. Without condoning the events of 9/11, the, devil’s advocate approach Airspace employs, utilizing the deductive and nearly flawless logic of the character Jack Dempsey questioning American reaction and why her surprise for being attacked seen through Jack’s insight appears inevitable. Through the eyes of the characters and their complex relationship this story portrays large corporations and the very system of American free markets as sharing, intricately and insidiously in the responsibility for the attacks, citing careless indifference to the culturally destructive nature of pure capitalism. Similarly the novel explores, ruthlessly the placated and self indulgent American lifestyle both as a cause and reasons for the surprise over the events of 9/11.?
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