This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper: Join us for Silicon Valley Moms Group's next Book Club on Tuesday, October 13th
Family relationships can be complicated. Aren't we all a little dysfunctional? Join us on Tuesday, October 13th as we discuss This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper for our next book club.
About the book: 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.
Read along with us: Buy your copy of the book today and get ready to discuss with us on Tuesday, October 13th. See you at book club!
Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:
- Do One Nice Thing by Debbie Tenzer
- Birth Day by Mark Sloan, M.D.
- What Happened to the Girl I Married? by Michael Miller
- Testimony by Anita Shreve
- Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs
- Much to Your Chagrin by Suzanne Guilette
- It Started with Pop-Tarts by Lori Hanson
- Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
- The White Trash Moms Handbook by Michelle Lamar
- Writing Motherhood by Lisa Garrigues
- The Vaccine Book by Dr. Robert W. Sears
- The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross
