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Incredibly Close, too, trades political commentary for sentimentality, understandably in this case, considering its nine-year-old narrator—who effectively releases his creator from his political prerogative—cannot reasonably be expected to address the complex machinations of institutional politics.
DeLillo’s Falling Man succeeds in its commentary on trauma as an ongoing, affective experience for individuals and for the nation, but DeLillo’s tone suggests he is writing from a psychic proximity that precludes the kind of detached political commentary that we see in the novels of interest to this study. In their willingness to take on America’s dominant political narrative, these novels give us critical ways of understanding the substance of political trauma and its effects on individuals and their families.
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