Red Room Where the Writers Are

OK, I'm not drawn to needy man-children who have just taken an emotional beating from true-loves and certainly can't turn to their dysfuncational families for help. I prefer boys with the courage of adults, like Edgar Sawtelle, to vice-versa. And Woody Allen's so mastered dysfuncational families, where to you go from there? To Jonathan Tropper, the poet of the pained male - that's where. He's so brilliant, insightful, and funny that you fall in love with him and his characters. He has an original voice and his own edgy humor plus knows how to pepper his plots with shivers and downright shocks. No, you don't put his books aside, and I stayed up all night finishing "This Is Where I Leave You." - Ann Seymour, author of "I've Always Loved You," a true story of ww2 in the Pacific