A review by travisclau
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer

5.0

I'm always surprised to read reviews of this novel as plotless, but in so many ways, the novel is not about that. Foer captures so beautifully the fine texture of feelings that too often, as he describes it, go "subterranean." The novel is at once speculative fiction about a possible future for Israel, but it is first and foremost about marriage and a family. Foer has always had a knack for capturing in almost aphoristic fashion the particularities of human interaction. He says what we intuit, what we feel but don't quite know how to express with the kind of wit or clarity that he and his characters do. Reading the novel is an affective investment, but perhaps Foer would say any marital or familial relation is an investment that is just beyond our fullest comprehension.