A key is discovered in a vase that was owned by a victim of this event in a 2005 Jonathan Foer novel.
Isabel Allende claimed that this event caused her to gain a country 28 years after she lost a different one in her memoir My Invented Country. Horst falls asleep watching Monday Night Football the night before this event in Thomas Pynchon's novel Bleeding Edge. Keith is a lawyer who survives this event in Don DeLillo's novel (*) Falling Man. A key is discovered in a vase that was owned by a victim of this event in a 2005 Jonathan Foer novel. For 10 points, Oskar's father in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close died during what attack on the World Trade Center?
Isabel Allende claimed that this event caused her to gain a country 28 years after she lost a different one in her memoir
September 11, 2001 attacks [accept “9/11” and other equivalent answers]