The New York Times bestselling new novel about modern family lives from the author of Everything Is Illuminated & Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Discover Jonathan Safran Foer&s greatest novel yet& Towering & glorious a tale of social familial & marital breakdown & the End of the World The funniest literary novel I have ever read& The Times Picked by Nick Cave for the Florence & the Machine & Between Two Books& June book club Jacob & 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 & by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage A typical modern American 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 with inventiveness playfulness & compassion Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times an unmissable read for fans of Jonathan Franzen & Michael Chabon a masterpiece about how we live now &A rich beautifully written ambitious & grandly moving novel which looks both at the world at large & at the deepest concerns of individual lives& Evening Standard& Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence & deep feeling & pitiless clarity it&s impossible to read it & not re-examine your own family& Time& Astonishing So sad & so funny & so wry& Scotland on Sunday