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The main story is about a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell, whose father dies in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Desiring to be close to this father, he goes into he father's closet. There he finds a vase containing a key in an envelope with the word "Black" written on the outside. Oskar is determined to find what the key unlocks and sets off to contact every person in New York City with the last name "Black." The novel is written from Oskar's perspective, telling of his feelin
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