Jonathan Trooper
“Everything Changes”
335 Pages
This book was an excellent way to start the year. It is kind of a sissy, wimpy boy book about “what men really think” about relationships and their fathers and urinating blood. Yes that’s right the book features rather prominently the following themes:
Death of friend
Engaged to beautiful women who loves you but your in love with dead best friends wife.
Death of a best friend
estranged father coming back
Slightly mentally retarded younger brother
Family....and
Blood in your urine
It is a good story. They all live in new York and the main protagonist is a “middleman” and lives with his very rich friend, “Jed” and both are recovering from the death of their friend “Rael” who dies with our hero on their way home from a bad gambling night in Atlantic City. His estranged father shows up the week of his engagement party...he has blood in his stream and it all flows to a rather neat conclusion where he ends up with the right girl and a much better understanding of family. There is a reasonable amount of truth and insight in it and it is well written and has it’s funny spots. On our St. Louis Diner review scale of 1-10 Slingers this rated a 7.5 Slingers.
