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Delacorte Press
July 2007
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Featuring: Doug Parker
352 pages
ISBN: 0385338902
EAN: 9780385338905
Hardcover
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Contemporary | Fiction
"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.
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