How to Talk to a Widower

Another great one by Tropper. I loved the characters, the pacing, and as always, Tropper's great wit.

This book is delightful. It's funny, tender-hearted, genuine, sincere, and most importantly, well written. The characters are fully realized and well-developed.

this isn't the review the book deserves, but it's all I can come up with at the moment...

Twentysomething Doug Parker, after two years of marriage to a woman with a teenage son, becomes a widower who can't let go of his grief (and doesn't want to anyway). He withdraws from life, from work, from family, and from the angry stepson who lost as much as he did.

Events–and overly-amorous neighbors–conspire to drag him, kicking, screaming and swearing, back to the land of the living (with all its attendant glories and problems).

I'm fairly certain this isn't Tropper's best novel, but it's probably his most effective–he can bring you from the verge of tears (or over the verge) to laughing out loud and back again in less than 5 pages. That's true even on a re-read like this was for me. I love this book.