Here. I. Am.

<p><strong>New York City 1938. Ben Heald is a young prodigy; a champion swimmer who dreams of attending MIT . . . until his mother contracts a deadly and mysterious disease.</strong> Ben's father demands that he leave prep school to become his business partner and the young man's life becomes unmoored.</p><p></p><p>As he grapples with his mother's illness and his father's ultimatum Ben's new reality brings him into orbit with all sorts of characters: a brilliant but tortured math teacher an eccentric disease specialist a profligate uncle in debt to the mafia and a hopeful first love.</p><p></p><p>Inspired by true events from author Gordon Adler's life <em>Here. I. Am.</em> is a story of family of hope of heartbreak and of the one question Ben Heald must answer for himself: will he be loyal to his family or to his dreams?</p><p></p>