BooksThe pains of being present Jonathan Safran Foer asks what it really means to say, Here I am. by Elizabeth Palmer in the December 21, 2016 issueShareShare on TwitterShare on FacebookEmail to a friendPrint In Review Here I Am A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Farrar, Straus and Giroux In a rare moment of vulnerability with his teenage son Sam, Jacob describes the time when his wife, Julia, corrected him for singing the wrong lyric to a Nirvana song: “She pointed out that you were wrong?” “Yeah.”