The Great September 11 Novel

The title of David Ulin's article in yesterday's LA Times about literature after 9/11-- "A Compelling Narrative from an Unlikely Source:  Looking for the transformative literary work on the terrorist attacks?  Try the official government report"-- gives his story away.  Ulin says that the government's report "may be as close as we've yet come to the great Sept. 11 novel."  That doesn't surprise me.  I didn't stop writing fiction after 9/11, but until recently I hadn't been able to write a story that takes place after 9/11.   Anyway, Ulin asks:  "where, though, is the transformative book about Sept. 11, the one that, like Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' or Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' evokes its emotional resonance?"  Ulin goes on to say, "...it's useful to remember that both Vietnam and the Great War involved elaborate, if contradictory, narratives, whereas Sept. 11 seemed to defy narrative altogether-- just as it has defied perspective because it was without prior context in our lives."  My question is this:  Was September 11 really without prior context in all of our lives?  I don't think so.