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Esther’s granddaughter Rebecca Gottesfeld, with her
partner George Botkin, an ingenious composer, seek to
unravel the facts of the matter while Ruth Zion, a
zealous feminist historian of the fire, bores in on 2007 JOHN GARDNER FICTION BOOK AWARD Finalist TRIANGLE WAS ON THE LONG LIST for the 2008 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD TRIANGLE WON THE 2007 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION TRIANGLE WAS A FINALIST FOR THE 2007 PATERSON FICTION PRIZE. Katharine discussed TRIANGLE with Sheila Kast on WEEKEND EDITION on National Public Radio (LIT BLOG) The Incredibly Long Podcast with Levi Asher & Katharine Weber A Fire, a Curiosity, a Heritage, a Novel and, Now, a Prize. Conversations With Famous Writers (LIT BLOG) Five Books of Disaster and Woe (LIT BLOG) Reviewing the Reviews (LIT BLOG) Talking Triangles with Katharine Weber (LIT BLOG) Triangle Week: The Tailor's Face and Hands A Triangle of Influences, Katharine's essay on nextbook A survivor's story, retold for 90 years, Katharine's essay on Bookpage.com Maureen Corrigan on NPR/Fresh Air loves TRIANGLE Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Katharine Weber’s Triangle is a marvel of ingenuity, bridging history and imagination, astonishing musical inventiveness and genuine social tragedy. It is a wide-awake novel as powerful as it is persuasive, probing and capturing human verities.” —Cynthia Ozick “Katharine Weber has always been a brilliant and ingenious formalist; at last she has found a subject deep and durable enough to bear the jeweled precision of her gaze. Here one of our most irresistible writers meets one of the most immovable events of our history. “Triangle is a finely written contemplation of love, memory, terror, music and DNA. Precise and clear-eyed, the novel examines the power of recollection in surviving overwhelming tragedy with both pathos and humanity.” —Barbara Chase-Riboud, author of Hottentot Venus “Blending music and memory together in arresting arrangement, Triangle is a unique and poignant tale of the varieties of love and loss.” 'Slippery as an unreliable witness, Triangle maps the
gap between memory and history. Out of the most
unlikely materials, Katharine Weber has fashioned a
generational mystery that plays as both academic farce
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Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the
notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told
her story countless times in the span of her lifetime.
Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered
many questions about what happened that fateful day.
How did she manage to survive the fire when at least