THE BOOK OF JOE (Jonathan Tropper) - May 24/25

 I was looking up Tropper books on here and noticed this one wasn’t listed, so I immediately grabbed it from the library. It’s a good book, though a little disappointing if I’m being honest. The central character is memorable and compelling, and so are most of the periphery figures, but the book is way too long and stuffed with needless digressions (eg the bully, the fake breakup, etc). I mostly enjoyed it, but I wanted to love it. *** out of ****