'' A Day at the Beach '' , published in 2008 , focuses on a family living through the September 11 attacks and the aftermath . '' The New Yorker '' wrote , “ Schulman , in her fourth novel , gets both her cultural moment and the psychological particulars of a disintegrating marriage exactly right , and her writing is distractingly , almost brazenly beautiful . The result slyly demonstrates both the inadequacy of art and its insolent resilience in disaster ’s aftermath . ” Schulman ’s fiction , non-fiction , and reviews have appeared in such places as '' Vanity Fair , Time , Vogue , GQ , The New York Times Book Review '' , and '' The Paris Review '' . She co-edited with Jill Bialosky the anthology , '' Wanting a Child . '' She has written numerous screenplays , including co-writing an adaptation of her novel '' P.S. '' , which was made into a film in 2004 starring Laura Linney . Schulman 's essay " The Habitual Aborter " was published in Time and in the anthology , '' Wanting a Child . '' Her essay , " My Father , The Garbage Head " was published in the anthology , '' An Uncertain Inheritance '' and her essay on Faulkner 's ' As I Lay Dying ' was published in lithub
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Helen Schulman