After huge success from her first book, The Mountains Sing, it’s absolutely amazing that she can land another rich and deeply emotional book.
My Review: 5 starsĭust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai was another winner in this author’s literary belt. 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. 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.
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