The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller

The Lake Shore Limited is a novel by Sue Miller, the author of 2008’s heralded best seller "The Senator’s Wife". It is a post 9/11 novel about a playwright, Billy, who writes a play entitled "The Lake Shore Limited". The story itself centers on The Lake Shore Limited -- a play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that train as it pulls into Union Station in Chicago, and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife, who is traveling on it. Billy had waited in just such a way on 9/11 to hear whether her lover, Gus, was on one of the planes used in the attack.

A powerful love story; a mesmerizing tale of entanglements, connections, and inconsolable losses; a marvelous reflection on the meaning of grace and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art: The Lake Shore Limited is Sue Miller at her dazzling best.