The Book Of Joe Tropper, Jonathan

Bush Falls, Pennsylvania — seventeen years ago, Joe Goffman wrote a novel that burned his hometown to the ground. Not literally, but close enough. Every secret, every humiliation, every small-town cruelty got immortalized in print. Then he ran. Now he's back, dragged home by his father's stroke, forced to face everyone he skewered on the page. The popular jock he outed. The first love he never got over. The family he abandoned. Tropper writes with sharp humor and genuine heart about what happens when you can't outrun your past, when the people you hurt are still breathing, and when going home means reckoning with the person you were. This is a story about second chances that never pretends they're easy. Perfect for fans of Nick Hornby's messy, emotionally honest men, or anyone who's ever wanted to set fire to their high school reunion.