This is where I leave you
About this book
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 "hilarious, but emotion-packed,"1 "fantastically funny,"2 "surprisingly moving,"3 and "utterly magnificent."4 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 Foxman's father, an event that marks the first time in a decade that the entire Foxman family—including Judd's mother, brothers, and sister—have been together in the same house for an extended period...
Subjects
- adultery
- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters, fiction
- death
- divorced men
- divorced people, fiction
- families
- family
- family life
- fathers
- fiction
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, psychological
- large type books
- literature & fiction
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2012-09-02
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2010-08-01
- self-actualization (psychology)
- self-realization
- siblings
- siblings, fiction