Unlubricated - Arthur Nersesian

This book was something a little different for me. I picked it up as a staff recommendation at the local bookstore, and also because it takes place in New York City and addresses events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. I hadn't really read any fiction that incorporated this event.

Hannah is a young actress who comes across a script for a play that she believes to be the lost manuscript of a famous dead writer. She contacts an old college group and they agree to invest in and produce the play. Through a variety of plot twists, Hannah ends up not acting but solely producing, and getting herself tangled in an increasingly complicated situation of legalities and moralities surrounding the play.

Through the book's plot is the backdrop of 9/11 - Hannah's experience on that day, her subsequent anxiety attacks, and later in the book, her father's way of coping with the terrorism that destroyed the buildings in which he once worked.

All in all this book was mildly entertaining, but not entirely my style. It seemed unable to find its way between a meaningful story and a Jennifer Crusie novel. Only near the end of the book did I feel the author really captured Hannah's emotions in a convincing way. I have many other books on the nightstand that I wish I would have read instead of this one.