Easily the best 9/11 book I've ever read (though I didn't set out to read a book about 9/11; I was just in the mood for a Joseph O'Neill novel).
I suspect that neither I nor most other readers would even experience this as a 9/11 novel if it had not been written in 2008 andreceived as a 9/11 novel.
But that's a slippery counterfactual, because if this book had been written today (and not by an antecedently famous author), it's hard to imagine it finding any kind of wide audience in the first place. This is hard to wrap my head around: it's one thing to recognize one's childhood as having taken place in a totally different literary culture, but I was well out of college by 2008. Netherland was a major, acclaimed novel. The adoring blurbs make plenty of sense to me, but I can't imagine their being written today.
I very much remain a Joseph O'Neill fan. I'd put Netherland a bit above Godwin, but I much prefer The Dog to either.
I can't unqualifiedly recommend these books, though, because I know just how many people dislike O'Neill's writing. (I'm not a big Goodreads guy, but I know that these are low ratings.)