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This Is Where I Leave You (Hardcover)

By: Jonathan Tropper (Author)

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"[A] magnificently funny family saga....It's a no-brainer that THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU has been snapped up for adaptation into a movie....But since the menschy soulfulness that infuses Tropper's writing may be this brimming novel's most delicate gift of all, I urge with all my heart and kishkes: Read this one! Read and weep with laughter."

"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."

"Tropper's new novel is artful and brilliant, filled with colorful narratives and witty dialogue....[He] offers a genuine portrayal of marriage, sibling rancor and the loss of a parent. The subject matter is at times dismal, but Tropper, author of four other novels, can find the funny in any situation."

"The emotions feel real and sometimes painfully raw, but Tropper spins them with laugh-out-loud and often absurd humor, keeping the overall tone optimistic."

"[T]his author's strong suit is wisecracks, the more irreverent the better.....Mr. Tropper's dialogue here is fast and fresh, his book also has ballast. The death of a father would seem to provide that automatically, but it takes a while for these characters to shed their flippancy and understand what has hit them."

Publisher's note

From a internationally best-selling, critically acclaimed author of four novels that have been called moving, hilarious, tender, superb, smart, honest, sweet, deft, and magnificent comes this newest novel.

International bestseller Jonathan Tropper joins Dutton with the book his fans in the trade have been waiting for him to write: an uproarious, sophisticated, and deeply moving breakout novel.
Those who have already discovered Jonathan Tropper have called his novels ahilarious, but emotion-packed, a1 afantastically funny, a2 asurprisingly moving, a3 and autterly magnificent.a4 With his Dutton debut, Tropper has delivered a novel of true sophistication, at once light of touch and with a real sense of humor, without sacrificing a depth of character and raw emotion reminiscent of the early work of John Irving and Michael Chabon.
"This Is Where I Leave You" opens with the death of Judd Foxmanas father, an event that marks the first time in a decade that the entire Foxman familyaincluding Juddas mother, brothers, and sisterahave been together in the same house for an extended period. Conspicuously absent: Juddas wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Juddas radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.
The typical Foxman family gathering ends with car doors slamming and tires screeching as various factions scatter to nurse their resentments in private. But this time around, the Foxmans reluctantly submit to their fatheras dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together. In the same house. Like a real family. For Judd itas a week-long opportunity to come to terms with his fatheras death, his failed marriage, and to explain the mess his life has become to a never-ending parade of people he thought he might never see again. Which would be bad enough without the bomb Jen dropped the day Juddas father died: Sheas pregnant.

From a internationally best-selling, critically acclaimed author of four novels that have been called moving, hilarious, tender, superb, smart, honest, sweet, deft, and magnificent comes this newest novel.

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Just after discovering his wife in flagrante with his boss, the loathsome hate-mongering host of a radio talk show, Judd Foxman must "sit shivah" (the week-long Jewish mourning period) for his dead father. Those seven days become a gauntlet of bad behavior and family dysfunction, including his lascivious mother's shameless flirtations, Judd's own indiscretions with his sister-in-law, and the arrival of his wife with the not-so-joyful news that she is pregnant. Jonathan Tropper's willfully vulgar THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU is a non-stop of barrage of awkward encounters, poor decisions, and slapstick sexual escapades.

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