Everything Changes

A Novel

By: Jonathan Tropper

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Jonathan Tropper’s novel The Book of Joe dazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. Now Tropper brings all that–and more–to an irresistible new novel. In Everything Changes, Tropper delivers a touching, wickedly funny new tale about love, loss, and the perils of a well-planned life.

EVERYTHING CHANGES

To all appearances, Zachary King is a man with luck on his side. A steady, well-paying job, a rent-free Manhattan apartment, and Hope, his stunning, blue-blooded fiancée: smart, sexy, and completely out of his league. But as the wedding day looms, Zack finds himself haunted by the memory of his best friend, Rael, killed in a car wreck two years earlier–and by his increasingly complicated feelings for Tamara, the beautiful widow Rael left behind.

Then Norm–Zack’s freewheeling, Viagra-popping father–resurfaces after a twenty-year absence, looking to make amends. Norm’s overbearing, often outrageous efforts to reestablish ties with his sons infuriate Zack, and yet, despite twenty years of bad blood, he finds something compelling in his father’s maniacal determination to transform his own life. Inspired by Norm, Zack boldly attempts to make some changes of his own, and the results are instantly calamitous. Soon fists are flying, his love life is a shambles, and his once carefully structured existence is spinning hopelessly out of control.

Charged with intelligence and razor sharp wit, Everything Changes is at once hilarious, moving, sexy, and wise–a work of transcendent storytelling from an exciting new talent.©2005 Jonathan Tropper; (P)2005 Books on Tape, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Jonathan Tropper is the new breed of novelist who writes for men and women with equal ease and grace. Everything Changes is a wonderful and engaging comic novel about the possibility of new life in the midst of emotional disaster.”
--Haven Kimmel, author of The Solace of Leaving Early

“Women: Want to know how men think? Here's a smart, funny, brutally honest, much-needed guy's point of view on how messy love can be. Jonathan Tropper makes me laugh and breaks my heart at the same time.”
--Lolly Winston, bestselling author of Good Grief

Tropper on a bad day

This is Tropper at his worst - which is still pretty good and definately better than most. It isn't the Book of Joe, but it is a comfort for those of us who have a wonderfully caustic sense of humor.

Just okay. Somewhat disappointing

I loved the Book of Joe and was excited to see Tropper's new novel on audio. It was just all right. Great characters, clever dialogue, and his borderline flip/ neurotic attitude -- all there and well done. I was also fine with the subject matter. But the "love story" (or non-love story) became too much of the focus. The whole idea of pointing to the one moment when "everything changes" is very appealing, but halfway through the book I started skipping over the romance things and moving on to the "interesting parts".

Yes It Does

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes I would I really enjoyed this story from top to bottom.

What other book might you compare Everything Changes to and why?

One Hit Wonder both Story's are about a man finding this way through this sometimes shit storm called life.

What does Scott Brick bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Scott Brick is one of the best. It's like when jack nicholson played joker then heath ledger played joker after you saw Heath's performance you where like Jack who?

If you could rename Everything Changes, what would you call it?

Shit Happens

Any additional comments?

Good Book get it now, right NOW!

Great story, great narration, nonsensical organization

Enjoyed the telling and the story, but why was the recording divided into 8 or so chapters when the book is made up of 42?

Good guy book

After I first started listening, I thought this was a guy-book (vs chick-book) because it had lots of references to guy noises and guy troubles. But I stayed with it and it turned out to be a good story so I would have to say I recommend it.