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Book Notes - Jonathan Tropper ("This Is Where I Leave You")

Aug 13, 10:53am largehearted boy
Book Notes - Jonathan Tropper ("This Is Where I Leave You") In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Jonathan Tropper's novel This Is Where I Leave You is a comic masterpiece. A dysfunctional family comes together to sit Shiva for their patriarch, and Tropper's insightful pen draws them with an impressive degree of humanity and pathos. This masterful blend of comedy and tragedy is one of my favorite novels of the year, a book I cannot stop myself from constantly recommending. In his own [...]
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