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"This is what happened." Or is it? I enjoyed Triangle very much. It's one of those novels that is set in the present, but flashes back, over and over, to the past. The past here is the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, the worst NY disaster before the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. The present concerns the life of a woman named Rebecca, whose grandmother, Esther, was the oldest living survivor of the terrible New York fire. Rebecca is married to George, an innovative composer. Through the course of the novel the reader comes to understand the nature of George's music, with its themes and variations, and the true nature of what happened to Rebecca's grandmother in the sweatshop where she worked. I imagine some readers will find all the music theory tiresome, and will be impatient with the repetition of Esther's often told story. But patience will pay off. It all fits together in the end, and like powerful music, will move your heart.