One Last Thing Before I Go (Jonathan Tropper)

Quick read. And totally quintessential Tropper. You have your male lead surrounded by people/family that he is both loved and hated by. His inner monologue is funny and self-deprecating and completely recognizable as JT. 

So we have Silver, Drew Silver who is a middle aged guy who was once famous for a punk band back in the day. He had it all, kinda. A wife and and daughter and lost them both when his wife divorced him. We start the story almost 8 years after the divorce and we see Silver as he makes a deposit at the sperm bank for cash. We see how pathetic he is as he recounts all his past mistakes and regrets (in a humorous way of course) and we see that he's kind of douche- but one that's likable if you can picture that. 

Silver's ex wife is about to get married. And his 18 year old daughter finds out that she's pregnant and against her better judgment she comes to Silver for guidance. Silver has been out of her life for said 7 years but he says he'll support whatever decision she makes. Before she makes one he ends up collapsing and finds out that has some blood vessel or capillary or something (i forget, please forgive me) that is on the verge of tearing that will kill him but it's fixable via surgery. Get this: the surgeon who tells this him this news is the fiancé of his ex wife. This is a guy that Silver both likes and hates at the same time. 

So we're carried through a week in Silver's life where he's decided to not go through with the operation because his life basically sucks and we see the family come out and the friends come out and tell him why he should do it. 
Does he get the surgery? Does he have a one night-er with his ex wife? Does his daughter end up keeping the baby? 
I have to admit the ending is a little iffy for me. But I enjoyed the book overall. It dealt with one's life as one knows it and what we make it to be. What is life all about? When we think it's not worth it to go on, what keeps up waking up and living another day? Read to find out!! :)
The book doesn't really go into all that but it did make me think a little. But I laughed more (on the inside, not LOL or anything). Tropper has yet to let me down.