By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home.
By the family reunion that everyone is dreading.
By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled.
And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage.
A typical modern family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart.
Which is when catastrophe decides to strike .
Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human withinventiveness, playfulness, and compassion, Here I Am is the great family novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.