"Beautifully crafted," "Fantastically funny." "Compulsively
readable." Jonathan Tropper has earned wild acclaim---and
comparisons to Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta--for his biting humor
and insightful portrayals of families in crisis and men behaving
badly. Now the acclaimed author of The Book of Joe and Everything
Changes tackles love, lust, and lost in the suburbs--in a stunning
novel that is by turns heartfelt and riotously funny.
Doug Parker is a widower at age twenty-nine, and in his quiet
suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity--the object
of sympathy, curiosity, and, in some cases, unbridled desire. But
Doug has other things on his mind. First there's his sixteen
year-old stepson, Russ: a once-sweet kid who now is getting into
increasingly serious trouble on a daily basis. Then there are
Doug's sisters: his bossy twin, Clair, who's just left he husband
and moved in with Doug, determined to rouse him from his Grieving
stupor. And Debbie, who's engaged to Doug's ex-best friend and
manically determined to pull off the perfect wedding at any cost.
Soon Doug's entire nuclear family is in his face. And when he
starts dipping his toes into the shark-infested waters of the
second-time around dating scene, it isn't long before his new life
is spinning hopelessly out of control, cutting a harrowing and
often hilarious swath of sexual missteps and escalating chaos
across the suburban landscape.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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