Colum McCann

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between...

Seven years after her son Jim, a freelance journalist, was captured and killed by ISIS - a brutal act that produced one of the 21st century's most haunting images - Diane Foley is offered the opportunity to meet her son's murderer over three days in a Virginia courthouse. So begins American Mother-- which reads alternately like a thriller, a biography, a mystery, a memoir, and a literary examination of grace. In this astonishing book, we are all invited...