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<p><b>A monumental novel from the bestselling author of<i> Everything Is Illuminated</i> and<i> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</i>, Jonathan Safran Foer's <i>Here I Am</i></b> <br><br> In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.”<br><br>How 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 others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years—a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.<br><br>Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., <i>Here I Am</i> is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch 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 quickly escalating conflict in the

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Author
Jonathan Safran ( Foer
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9780374938215
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
Rating
3.65 / 5 (8,989 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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