A book that can make you laugh as well as move you to tears, it is now also a film starring Jason Bateman and Tina Fey, and currently showing in the Milwaukee area. Many call themselves avid fans, but few truly are. Many like the book, but many are not avid fans. Many read the book, but many don’t like it. Judd must deal with his failing marriage, his feelings for his father and all of the craziness of his family in seven days without losing his sanity. Jonathan Tropper delivers all the answers in his newest book, This Is Where I Leave You a brilliantly touching and amusing novel about one Jewish family and their challenges. His family, who to say they do not get along would be an understatement, is forced to sit Shiva per his dead father’s request. Judd recently discovered his wife was cheating on him with his boss and that his father is dead. Like all Tropper works it features a male protagonist who is coming to middle age with a pretty pathetic back story. utterly magnificent.'-Augusten Burroughs on The Book of Joe 'Tropper's book is a smart comedy of inappropriate behavior at an inopportune. Though the plot points are hilarious This Is Where I Leave You covers a lot of heavy material – death, divorce, infertility, miscarriage, loneliness, etc. Jonathan Tropper’s author page has fabulous reading guides for each of his books, and we used the This is Where I Leave You reading guide to begin our discussion. 'Jonathan Tropper is a genius.' -Jane Green 'Jonathan Tropper is the new breed of novelist who writes for men and women with ease and grace.' -Haven Kimmel 'A beautifully crafted book of enormous heart.
Read it or see it? This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper By MPL Staff on 11:53 AM
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