Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper is the author of How to Talk to a Widower, Everything Changes, The Book of Joe, and Plan B. He lives with his family in Westchester, New York, where he teaches writing at Manhattanville College.
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Jonathan Tropper is the author of How to Talk to a Widower, Everything Changes, The Book of Joe, and Plan B. He lives with his family in Westchester, New York, where he teaches writing at Manhattanville College.
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although it had funny bits, witty dialogue and fast-moving narration, traits that i absolutely fall for in a book, it didn't blow me away. the characters left me indifferent and the story was, unexpectedly, dull.
While it’s beginnings sound somber—a family of adults attend the funeral of the their father and find that, even though the family was not religious, his dying wish was that the family come together and sit Shiva (mourning) for the requisite week. Thus begins this funny, and at times, touching novel...
I picked up this book after seeing the funny trailer that was released a little while ago. I thin this will be one of those movie improves on the book movies, which do happen, if rarely. Mainly because they got Tina Fey to play the sister. It's not a terrible book and it does have some good mome...
Interesting, but it never really grabbed me, even though it's a fast read. I know it's being made into a movie and I'm not really sure how they're going to do it - it's not really a family drama, but it's not a comedy either. It's described as "riotously funny," but I guess I just have a different...
Tolstoy observed in Anna Karenina that while all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Using this rule of thumb it can be safely said that the Foxman family of This Is Where I Leave You is unique. Their story opens with Judd--narrator and third of the family's fo...
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