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August Book Club 8-9

Wednesday, August 9, 2017 17 Av 5777

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

 Wednesday, August 9th!

 

CBT'S BOOK CLUB
 
 
CBT's Eshet Chayil Group invites you to our stimulating, thought-provoking and fascinating..
 
 
CBT's August Book Club
 
 
Reading the book

Here I Am 

by Jonathan Safran Foer

 
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
6:30 pm
 
Hosted by: Flory Mitrani-Lustgarten
 
Join us at The Mitrani-Lustgarten home
6415 E Winchcomb Dr.
Scottsdale,  AZ 85254
 
Please RSVP to Flory @ flory.mitrani@gmail.com OR 480-212-4668

 

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.

Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am 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 Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home―and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear.

Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers.

 

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