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Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author and husband of novelist Nicole Krauss
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Here I Am The hero of Here I Am is a pun-loving television writer who is pummeled by the loss of everything he values. This novel expands a family crisis into a global crisis which threatens the state of Israel.
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