Here I Am

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER n n 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 n n 'Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read' The Times n n 'A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives' Evening Standard n n 'Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it's impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family' Time n n 'Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry' Scotland on Sunday n n Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . . n n By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home. n By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading. n By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled. n And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage. n n A typical modern American family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike . . . n n 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. n