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September 6, 2016

Jonathan Safran Foer: Not the Great American Jewish Novelist

If kitsch has a “fairy-tale glow,” then Here I Am is positively radiant.

In Here I Am, his new novel, Jonathan Safran Foer chronicles the unhappy and dissolving marriage of Jacob and Julia Bloch, two highly educated, upper-middle-class American Jews. In addition to finding the novel filled with “joyless prose about joyless people,” Alexander Nazaryan deems Foer’s attempt to write a profound work of American Jewish literature simultaneously kitschy and pretentious:

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