Between Heaven and Ground Zero
One Woman's Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11

My son first read this book, then he loaned his copy to me and recommended that I read it. I'm glad I did. This is the first hand account of the the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, by Leslie Haskin, a business woman who was at work on the 36th floor of Tower One when the first pla......more

Loving books as I do, I'm always fascinated to read the variations in styles when an author is telling his personal story. Some authors write in a forceful, in-your-face style; other authors write in a way that will cause you to empathize with their plight; and then, there are the authors who write......more

A really beautiful and deep read!......more

This is a book with two faces. One is compelling, horrific, vividly told. It's the story of one woman's experience of being in the World Trade Centre on 9/11. It's dark, it's told in its completeness, it omits nothing. Leslie Haskin makes you feel as if you too were there, even though you don't want......more

I just finished this book (an accomplishment for me, because I have started and not finished a dang lot of books lately), and I was most interested in the author's limited portrayal of what PTSD feels like for her. She was working in the first tower hit on 9/11 and escaped with her life but lost num......more