I'll Be Right Here

Praise

“Amy Bloom infuses every page of her newest novel with her singular wit and warmth. Spanning nearly a century, I’ll Be Right Here is a celebration of and lament for the families we create, the legacies we leave, the ways remember and are remembered. It is a chronicle of ordinary life made extraordinary through the beauty of Bloom’s prose and the generosity of her vision.”—Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“An unforgettable story of family, friendship, love and loss by one of America’s finest writers.”—John Boyne, New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and All the Broken Places

“Once again, Amy Bloom shines her brilliant attention on families bound by love, history. Kin—born and chosen—are the center of this stirring take. Told with humor and heart, I’ll Be Right Here reminds us of the sweet profundity of human connection.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage

“Amy Bloom’s books have always been deeply felt. . . . Her new novel, I’ll Be Right Here, sounds exceptional.”—BookPage

“I read this stunning novel in a single sitting and then moped around for days because I missed the characters so much. Amy Bloom is at the height of her powers in this epic tale of how we shape the lives of those around us in ways both ordinary and extraordinary, and how they shape ours in return.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs


Additional praise for Amy Bloom

“Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books.”—The New Yorker

“[Bloom] writes sharp, sparsely beautiful scenes that excitingly defy expectation, and part of the pleasure of reading her is simply keeping up with her.”—The New York Times

“Bloom is a truly excellent writer. . . . There is a line worth quoting on almost every page.”—Los Angeles Times

“Amy Bloom knows the urgency of love. . . . Bloom writes with extraordinary care about people caught in emotional and physical crosswinds: desires they can’t satisfy, illnesses they can’t survive, and—always—love that exceeds the boundaries of this world.”—The Washington Post