Book review: This is Where I Leave You
By Jonathan Tropper Published by Orion Books Jonathan Tropper, bestselling author of How to Talk to a Widower , returns with a book that explores all the facets of family life – marriage, divorce, love and compromises being only a few of them. A death in the family is the starting point of the narration, the reality that the reader is plunged into from the opening line. Although bringing with itself sadness for the loss of a loved one and, possibly, regrets for things done - or not done - in the past, death in this book is not a dark event looming over the living. It is rather an opportunity to come together. Siblings Judd, Paul, Wendy and Phillip are informed by their exuberant mother that the unexpected last wish of their non-religious father was for them to sit Shiva. That means that, rather than leaving the house as soon as possible after the funeral - which was certainly what each of them was planning - they will have to spend seven days together in the same house, behaving like a...