Here I Am

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind

Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever readThe Times

A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual livesEvening Standard

Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, its impossible to read it and not re-examine your own familyTime

Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wryScotland on Sunday

Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .

By Jacobs grandfather, who wont go quietly into a retirement home.
By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading.
By their sons heroic attempts to get expelled.
And 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 and compassion, Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times, an unmissable read for fans of Jonathan Franzen and Michael Chabon, a masterpiece about how we live now.