Everything Changes A Novel

Jonathan Tropper's novelThe Book of Joedazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. Now Tropper brings all thatand moreto an irresistible new novel. InEverything Changes, Tropper delivers a touching, wickedly funny new tale about love, loss, and the perils of a well-planned life. To all appearances, Zachary King is a man with luck on his side. A steady, well-paying job, a rent-free Manhattan apartment, and Hope, his stunning, blue-blooded fiancee: smart, sexy, and completely out of his league. But as the wedding day looms, Zack finds himself haunted by the memory of his best friend, Rael, killed in a car wreck two years earlierand by his increasingly complicated feelings for Tamara, the beautiful widow Rael left behind. Then NormZack's freewheeling, Viagra-popping fatherresurfaces after a twenty-year absence, looking to make amends. Norm's overbearing, often outrageous efforts to reestablish ties with his sons infuriate Zack, and yet, despite twenty years of bad blood, he finds something compelling in his father's maniacal determination to transform his own life. Inspired by Norm, Zack boldly attempts to make some changes of his own, and the results are instantly calamitous. Soon fists are flying, his love life is a shambles, and his once carefully structured existence is spinning hopelessly out of control. Charged with intelligence and razor sharp wit,Everything Changesis at once hilarious, moving, sexy, and wisea work of transcendent storytelling from an exciting new talent.

JONATHAN TROPPER lives with his wife and two children in Westchester, New York. He is the author of two previous novels, Plan B and The Book of Joe, which is currently being developed as a motion picture by Warner Bros. Studios. Everything Changes is currently in development at Sony Pictures. Jonathan can be contacted through his website at www.jonathantropper.com.


From the Hardcover edition.