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This Is Where I Leave You:

A Novel (Google eBook)
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106 Reviews
Penguin, Aug 6, 2009 - Fiction - 352 pages
"Often sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking...[Tropper is] a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche." --USA Today

The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously mourning the demise of his father and his marriage, Judd joins his dysfunctional family as they reluctantly sit shiva-and spend seven days and nights under the same roof. The week quickly spins out of control as longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed and old passions are reawakened. Then Jen delivers the clincher: she's pregnant.

This Is Where I Leave You is Jonathan Tropper's (One Last Thing Before I Go) most accomplished work to date, and a riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind-whether we like it or not.
  

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This is one of those books that you regret ending. - Goodreads
Tropper is a talented writer. - Goodreads
... hehe) His character development was impeccable. - Goodreads
And I LOVE an unresolved ending. - Goodreads
I liked the writing and the flow of the book was good. - Goodreads
I just wish the ending had felt more complete to me. - Goodreads

Review: This Is Where I Leave You

User Review  - Katherine - Goodreads

Perfect book for my state of mind at the time, which was tired but not brain-dead. I needed to read something fun but not stupid, not too challenging, but with a bit more substance. And this hit the ... Read full review

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User Review  - KrisAnne - Goodreads

A grating combination of trying too hard to be funny, casual misogyny, and generally unsympathetic characters. Tropper also seems completely obsessed with judging the physiognomy and physiques of all ... Read full review

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Contents

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Monday Chapter 42
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 15
Chapter 40

Chapter 22
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 31
Sunday
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Tuesday
Chapter 50
Copyright

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About the author (2009)

Jonathan Tropper is the author of One Last Thing Before I Go, How to Talk to a Widower, Everything Changes, The Book of Joe, and Plan B. He lives with his family in Westchester, New York, where he teaches writing at Manhattanville College. He is currently adapting This Is Where I Leave You as a feature film for Warner Brothers Studios and is a screenwriter, co-creator, and executive producer of the HBO/Cinemax television show Banshee (produced by alan Ball), premiering in 2013. 

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