How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper. [Ed: Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You 
was a top pick last year, and Everything Changes 
is reviewed above]. "One reviewer on Goodreads referred to Tropper’s genre as ‘lad lit.’ Probably apt – he writes about male characters in dramatic situations with a little romance thrown in. Tropper is vulgar and hilarious, and his books (as near as I can tell from actually reading two of them and reading about a few others) tend to climax in these completely absurd scenes – kind of like Pat Conroy (escaped tiger anyone?) but funny, not Gothic. This one is about a young widower who suffers (and becomes insufferable) in the period after his wife’s death. And, vintage Tropper, his family is an absolute parade of neuroses.”
