Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning novelist JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER—author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—for the paperback release of his bestselling novel, Here I Am.
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.
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.