“A beautifully crafted book of enormous heart, humility, wit, honesty and vulnerability. You want to call your friends at 3:am and read whole passages out loud. You want to press it into the hands of strangers. You cannot stop thinking about it because it has rearranged your very molecules. You know that kind of book? This is that kind of book. THE BOOK OF JOE is utterly magnificent. I wish I'd written it myself.”

-Augusten Burroughs author of Running With Scissors and Dry

“THE BOOK OF JOE is an elegiac, wickedly observant look at a small town and its secrets. In Jonathan Tropper's highly readable novel, the problem isn't that you can't go home again, it's that eventually you have to, whether you like it or not.”

-Tom Perrotta, author of Election and Joe College

“Witty, tender, and beautifully written. You really fall in love with Joe. By the end I wanted to have his babies!”
-Sue Margolis, author of Neurotica and Apocalipstick

“There is so much to praise in this winner of a book about a loser of a man that I won't waste my words. Read THE BOOK OF JOE and you too will laugh and cry (and cringe) as you watch Joe Goffman return to his hometown to make things right, only to make more and more of a mess for his family and friends-and more of a loveable jerk of himself. Like Richard Russo or Michael Chabon at their best.”
-Rita Ciresi, author of Pink Slip and Remind Me Again Why I Married