Here I Am Author:Jonathan Safran Foer Longlisted for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize — Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . . — By Jacob?s grandfather, who won?t go quietly into a retirement home. By the family reunion that everyone is dreading. By their son?s heroic attempts to get expelled. And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage. A typical mode... more »rn family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike . . .
Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human withinventiveness, playfulness, and compassion, Here I Am is the great family novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.« less