Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer
Paperback
(Penguin Canada, July 18, 2017)
Longlisted for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas PrizeJacob 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 modern 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.