This Is Where I Leave You

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• ISBN13: 9780525951278
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This Is Where I Leave You Overview

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. Conspicuously absent: Judd's wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd's radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.

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. In the same house. Like a family.

As the week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed, and old passions reawakened. 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. All of which would be hard enough without the bomb Jen dropped the day Judd's father died: She's pregnant.

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.

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Amazon Best of the Month, August 2009: Jonathan Tropper writes compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud funny novels, and his fifth book, This Is Where I Leave You is his best yet. Judd Foxman is oscillating between a sea of self-pity and a "snake pit of fury and resentment" in the aftermath of the explosion of his marriage, which ended "the way these things do: with paramedics and cheesecake." Foxman is jobless (after finding his wife in bed with his boss) and renting out the basement of a "crappy house" when he is called home to sit shiva for his father--who, incidentally, was an atheist. This of course means seven days in his parent's house with his exquisitely dysfunctional family, including his mom, a sexy, "I've-still-got-it" shrink fond of making horrifying TMI statements; his older sister, Wendy, and her distracted hubby and three kids; his snarky older brother, Paul, and his wife; and his youngest brother, Phillip, the "Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead." Tropper is wickedly funny, a master of the cutting one-liner that makes you both cringe and crack up. But what elevates his novels and makes him a truly splendid writer is his ability to create fantastically flawed, real characters who stay with you long after the book is over. Simultaneously hilarious and hopeful, This Is Where I Leave You is as much about a family's reckoning as it is about one man's attempt to get it together. The affectionate, warts-and-all portrayal of the Foxmans will have fans wishing for a sequel (and clamoring for all things Tropper). --Daphne Durham

Customer Reviews

When reading here is that I leave, a novel by Jonathan Tropper, I was so striking similarity with other books in a genre increasingly in popularity, and its uniqueness in the genre. This novel is about a broken family of two parents and four brothers that there are up and removed due to many family issues. It contains a therapist mother, Hillary, it is better to shame their children into adulthood and an emotionally absent father, Mort. The story is centeredaround three brothers, Paul, Judd, Phillip, and sister, Wendy, nurse various childhood trauma in adult life as reasons for the dislike of each other as adults. The family gathered in mourning after death passes, his dying request that his wife and children are sitting Shiva in mourning for a whole week.
In this review hearing, I was expecting a tired, overused plot, but it was pleasantly surprising is the use of humor surprised to describe the characters andSituations seemed so absurd yet realistic enough. The author tells the story of view Judd Foxman. Judd is the second eldest son, whose non-Jewish woman recently slept with her coarse, radio shock jock turns his head. The day goes by her father, as Judd go to his family home, is his ex-wife to tell him she was pregnant with his child. This is like Judd begins its week of mourning. It develops into a revelation of family problems,both real and imaginary, and the reopening and, ultimately, a step outside the role they played as children.
Jonathan Tropper layers extremely important subject for his characters, including but not limited to, infidelity, infertility, homosexuality, violence, loss of childhood dreams, masturbation, and brain damage. He does it with unflinching directness: "When I was twelve years old, [my mother] summarily handed me a tube of KY Jelly, and said he would have said,from the laundry that I started to masturbate, and that would increase my pleasure and to avoid rubbing .... My brothers have spit in their joyous notes bowls of chicken soup, and my father growled angrily and said: "Jesus, Hill!" He said these two words so often that last for a long time I thought Jesus' was actually Hill. In this particular case, I was unsure if convicted masturbation my father or benefits, discussing the night was Friday night. "Thesimultaneous viewing of family unity, the scandalous behavior of the mother of the father for failure to intervene, and the black humor of this unlikely, but plausible situation is typical for this book.
This Is Where I Leave You mentioned other writers like Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris, memories, their family stories without shame to me, so that its readers both amused and reassured of their own relative normality. The kind of fantasy story, it isrecalls the style of these authors and Adam Langer, author of Crossing California, the signs of age, who came in the 1970 and 1980 are described. This is perhaps why this kind of story has become popular. Readers who are currently between 30 and 40 years of entertainment experience you'll find many who feel like their childhood. At one point, Judd and his brothers smoke pot in a synagogue and share in the classroom during the reading of the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, andFire alarm. All is forgiven, because the rabbi Gardena is an old family friend, the boy Foxman nickname "Boner". Describe him as almost a family member who has always been, "" jerk off "test", [my boobs' and] "Kiffen" touch "in the family home Foxman.
Jonathan Tropper is masterfully woven story, and is one of the funniest books I ever read. It 'true that few people as bad luck, like Judd Foxman, but remembers his family dysfunction of manyI've seen. What could be a tough story changed characterized by humor, tenderness and even feelings of hope for his hapless protagonist. It is worth reading.

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