This Is Where I Leave You
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4.2 • 46 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A side-splitting and heartbreaking tale, soon to be a major Hollywood movie starring Tina Fey, Connie Britton and Jason Bateman.
Poor Judd Foxman returns home early to find his wife in bed with his boss - in the act. He now faces the twin threats of both divorce and unemployment. His misery is compounded further with the sudden death of his father.
He is then asked to come and 'sit Shiva' for his newly deceased parent with his angry, screwed-up and somewhat estranged brothers and sisters in his childhood home. It is there he must confront who he really is and - more importantly - who he can become.
Funny, moving, powerful and poignant, THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU is the fabulous follow-up to HOW TO TALK TO A WIDOWER and Jonathan Tropper at his best.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
You think you’ve got problems? Just weeks after catching his wife in bed with his loutish shock-jock boss, Judd Foxman is summoned home to bury his father and sit shiva with his inappropriate-acting mother and three prickly siblings. This Is Where I Leave You is a bawdy and hysterically funny portrait of family dysfunction propelled by brassy characters, zippy dialogue and touchingly raw meditations on love, marriage, ageing and loss. Exposing universal truths about the human capacity for fierce and inexplicable loyalty, author Jonathan Tropper makes you care deeply for characters who are spectacularly flawed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tropper returns with a snappy and heartfelt family drama/belated coming-of-age story. Judd Foxman's wife, Jen, has left him for his boss, a Howard Stern like radio personality, but it is the death of his father and the week of sitting shivah with his enjoyably dysfunctional family that motivates him. Jen's announcement of her pregnancy doubly tragic because of a previous miscarriage is followed by the dramas of Judd's siblings: his sister, Wendy, is stuck in an emotionless marriage; brother Paul always Judd's defender and his wife struggle with infertility; and the charming youngest, Phillip, attempts a grown-up relationship that only highlights his rakishness. Presided over by their mother, a celebrated parenting expert despite her children's difficulties, the mourning period brings each of the family members to unexpected epiphanies about their own lives and each other. The family's interactions are sharp, raw and often laugh-out-loud funny, and Judd's narration is unflinching, occasionally lewd and very keen. Tropper strikes an excellent balance between the family history and its present-day fallout, proving his ability to create touchingly human characters and a deliciously page-turning story.
Customer Reviews
This is where I leave you
Love, love, loved this book. Could not bear to put it down. Warm, interesting, flawed characters written with brutal honesty with something for any reader to relate to. Buy it!