"Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a story that unfolds from inside the mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 911, sets him off on an urgent search for the lock it opens. As Oskar's quest takes him across the city, he encounters an eclectic assortment of people -- survivors in their own way -- who help uncover links to his father, preserving a connection to the man who helped Oskar confront his fears about the noisy, dangerous world around him."--Container.