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Byline: David Tarrant
``Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope'' by Gail Sheehy, author and reader; Brilliance Audio (five CDs, 6 hours, abridged, $26.95)
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Even if you feel you've read everything you need to know about 9-11, make an exception for this book.
Gail Sheehy reads her own work, which focuses on the sleepy suburban town on the outskirts of New York City that lost 50 people to the terrorists' attacks on the twin towers. Many of the families she profiles were living the American dream in an upper-middle class community that seemed to embody the ideals of suburbia as a safe, child-centric haven ...