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Original Title:	This Is Where I Leave You
ISBN:	052595127X (ISBN13: 9780525951278)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Judd Foxman, Paul Foxman, Phillip Foxman, Wendy Foxman, Hilary Foxman, Annie Foxman, Jen Foxman, Linda Callen, Horry Callen, Charles Grodner
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)

This is Where I Leave You

Jonathan Tropper

Hardcover | Pages: 339 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 128366 Users | 11939 Reviews

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Title	:	This is Where I Leave You
Author	:	Jonathan Tropper
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 339 pages
Published	:	August 6th 2009 by Orion (first published November 10th 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Contemporary. Adult Fiction. Adult. Family. Book Club

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A riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or not. 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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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 of the characters, including minor ones that just show up to sit shiva or whatever. Heaven forbid that you grow old and expose any skin, or wear low-riding jeans postpartum. Everyone is physically icky except for the shining goddess of a wife who cheated on him, and all the women about whom he makes

Defines a new genre: "dick lit." A few moments of profound human interactions amid a sea of objectifying comments about women. Not a single female character passes by the author without some mention of her attractiveness or lack of as a sole criterion of her worth. Despicable.

"Seven days?""That's how long it takes to sit shiva.""We're not really going to do this, are we?"You have my deepest sympathies. I don't want to spend seven days with people I like much less spend them with my family.Well, a dying wish is a dying wish, and when patriarch Mort Foxman requests that his family sit shiva, well, DAMMIT!, they'd better do it. So, Judd, the narrator, moves back to the old homestead for seven days of communing with his three siblings and a whole lot of

Five. Five. Five.Fifty pages in and Tropper had declared himself one of my favorite authors. I will be reading more of his work ASAP. Two words - Fucking hilarious.Sex, Drugs, Love, Hate...in abundance. Love it.I can't decide which I was drawn to more, Tropper's sarcastic wit or the not-so-subtle family dysfunction. I loved the idea of the four siblings and the erratic mother coming together to mourn the death of their father/husband. I fell in love with each of the siblings at some point or

This book is weak. Im not usually a fan of novels that think they can hold their own merit on nothing but shock value and really bad sexual innuendosIm pretty sure this book may have overestimated itself. Id even feel bad for it, but the fact that its shallow cliché-ness seems to beg for a Hollywood deal rather sucks up any pity I might have otherwise had.

Does this story sound like itd tickle your funny bone? Judd Foxman and his wife Jen lost a baby during the last months of her pregnancy. A year later, he catches her in bed with his boss, a crude radio shock-jock. Months after that, Judd doesnt have a job and is living in a crappy apartment when he gets the news that his father finally died after long battle with cancer. Just then, Jen drops by to let him know that shes pregnant. Judds even more shocked to learn that his fathers last request was

I picked up this book on the recommendation of an acquaintance whose taste I trust. And in reading the dust jacket flap, I was immediately drawn in by the idea of the book: a family -- four siblings -- mourning the death of their father, coming together for seven days to sit shiva. The book promised to be witty and biting, an unforgiving look at family dynamic. I'm in. Sign me up.Eh.For sure there was some great language in here. Some sharp observations about disappointment and growing up and