One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper

 

This novel was a genuine pleasure to read--the first in what feels like longer than two weeks, there were some mistakes made. Some wonderful, juicy turns of phrase, and characters that are a delight to spend some time with in a novel, even if many of them would almost certainly become wearying in life; actual thematic things to say: mostly arising naturally from the main character's ... understanding (so intuitive that it takes him most of the novel to articulate anything close to it) that if he's going to choose to live, his life should be worth living. This is another novel steeped in Jewishness that probably sounds more depressing when reduced to a blurb than it is.