New Novel From Jonathan Safran Foer Coming in September

By Alexandra Alter for The New York Times

In the book of Genesis, when God calls for Abraham to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham replies obediently, “Here I am.”

That line provided inspiration for the author Jonathan Safran Foer, whose new novel, “Here I Am,” will be published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The novel, his first since “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” was published in 2005, unfolds over a single month in present-day Washington, as a Jewish family with three sons falls apart after the parents’ marriage falters. While the family implodes, relatives from Israel are visiting for the bar mitzvah of one of the sons. The drama unfolds as a larger catastrophe engulfs the Middle East, when a massive earthquake devastates the region and Israel is invaded.

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