This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Foxman family gets together to mourn the loss of its partriarch in Jonathan Tropper's smartly comic novel. ( Adapted from the publisher and Wikipedia.) Tropper is also currently working on a television series How to Talk to a Widower which was optioned by Paramount Pictures, and Everything Changes and The Book of Joe are also in development as feature films. Three of Tropper's books are currently being adapted into movies.

Everything Changes was a Booksense selection. How To Talk To A Widower, was the 2007 selection for the Richard and Judy Show in the United Kingdom. He lives with his wife, Elizabeth, and their children in Westchester, New York, where he teaches writing at Manhattanville College. Jonathan Tropper is also the author of This is Where I Leave You, How to Talk to a Widower, Everything Changes, and Plan B.

Currently-lives in Westchester, New York.

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

All of which would be hard enough without the bomb Jen dropped the day Judd's father died: She's pregnant. For Judd, it's a weeklong attempt to make sense of the mess his life has become while trying in vain not to get sucked into the regressive battles of his madly dysfunctional family. Like a family.Īs the week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed, and old passions reawakened. Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch's dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together. Conspicuously absent: Judd's wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd's radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family-including Judd's mother, brothers, and sister-have been together in years.

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper