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In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, รขยยAbraham!รขยย to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, รขยยHere I am.รขยย Later, when Isaac calls out, รขยยMy father!รขยย to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, รขยยHere I am.รขยยHow do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to othersรขยย? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foerรขยยs first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.
Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a spiraling conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of homeรขยยand the fundamental question of how much life one can bear.
Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers and critics loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foerรขยยs most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foerรขยยs stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a mature novelist who has fully come into his own as one of the most important writers of his generation. ISBN:9781250147028
