I hadn't heard anything about "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safron Foer, other than it was a movie dealing with 911.
911 certainly provided a backdrop, as the young main character's dad was killed in the World Trade Centre.
The story is much more about the effect the loss of his father had on the boy, and his need to try and re-connect. The grandparents' story was odd, but fit into the book well.
I liked it and really wanted to see the end of the boy's quest. Foer did well to not make a fairy-tale ending to the book, but make a positive ending, though realistic - the father didn't miraculously appear after recovering from memory loss... the family just made another of several levels of peace moving forward with their lives.
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