Here I Am

<p><b>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated </i>and <i>We are the Weather</i> - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind</b><br><br><b>'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' <i>The Times<br></i><br></b><b>'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' <i>Evening Standard</i> <br></b><br><b>'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' <i>Time</i><br></b><br><b>'Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry' <i>Scotland on Sunday</i></b> <br><br>Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .<br><br>By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home.<br>By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading.<br>By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled.<br>And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage.<br><br>A typical modern American family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike . . . <br><br>Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human with inventiveness, playfulness and compassion, <i>Here I Am</i> 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.</p>