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This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

This Is Where I Leave You

by Jonathan Tropper
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  • Aug 6, 2009, 352 pages
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"I’m sure you thought so."

"Oh, don’t get all passive-aggressive. I get enough of that from Barry."

"I’ll see you at the house."

"Fine, be that way," she says, disgusted. "Good-bye."

I wait her out.

"Are you still there?" she finally says.

"No." I hang up and imagine her slamming her phone down while the expletives fly in a machine-gun spray from her lips.

Excerpted from This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. Copyright © 2009 by Jonathan Tropper. Excerpted by permission of Dutton. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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