One Last Thing Before I Go

One Last Thing Before I Go (2012) by Jonathan Tropper. One of the better books I've read recently, this novel explores the world of divorced dads and how they manage to screw up their lives. In particular, one divorced dad named Silver becomes the focus of the book. Two important events mark Silver's life during the course of the novel: He finds out that his 18-year-old daughter, Casey, is pregnant; and he learns that he himself has a life-threatening heart defect which calls for surgery. He does his bumbling best to help Casey, but he refuses to get the surgery that he needs. The book is beautifully, fluidly written, and carries the reader along on a rushing river of words. I read it in two days, which is super fast for me. It's one of those books that is hard to put down, and which the reader looks forward to getting back to. Whether this has anything to do with the fact that I am a divorced dad myself is, I think, self-evident. A wonderful book. Grade: A