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Title: Tell Me How This Ends Well

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: David Samuel Levinson

Narrator: Michael Goldstrom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Why is tonight different from all other nights?

Tonight we kill dad.

In 2022 American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political, with the three adult children, Mo, Edith, and Jacob, in various states of crisis, the result, each claims, of a lifetime of mistreatment by their father, Julian. The siblings have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening their mother Roz's demise, and years of resentment boil over as they debate whether to go through with the real reason for their reunion: an ill-considered plot to end their father's iron rule for good. That is, if they can put their bickering, grudges, festering relationships, and distrust of one another aside long enough to act.

And God help them if their mother finds out....

Tell Me How This Ends Well presents a blistering and prescient vision of the near future, turning the exploits of one very funny, very troubled family into a rare and compelling exploration of the state of America and what it could become.

Critic Reviews:

"Tell Me How This Ends Well is a wickedly funny, intelligent examination of the dynamics of a uniquely strange family, and David Levinson guides these characters through a plot that intensifies in such unexpected ways. Against a backdrop that feels both terrifying and yet utterly plausible, Levinson again and again finds ways to make the struggles of this clan explode with a kind of humor that most writers could not dream of pulling off. A daring, memorable novel." (Kevin Wilson, author of Perfect Little World)

"Imaginative, intelligent." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

An Uncomfortably Plausible Satire

What changes will the year 2022 bring? A mere five years in the future, but still, one can look forward to at least a modicum of progress, right? An inching toward that ever-present goal of harmony and justice? Unfortunately not so in the fictional world David Samuel Levinson presents us with in his new, acerbic satire Tell Me How This Ends Well. In it, we explore the dangerously anti-Semitic Los Angeles through the eyes of a dysfunctional Jewish family.

  ÂThe novel is divided into three major sections, each focusing on the daily thoughts and actions of one of the adult Jacobson children. Through these in-depth third-person-limited perspectives, we get a vivid picture of the family dynamic, focusing on the verbal and psychological abuse suffered by them all courtesy of the family patriarch, their father Julian. A narcissistic, controlling, close-minded individual, Julian appears to have incited much resentment within his children, who have come to suspect that he is mistreating their ailing mother. Amidst the chaos of suicide bombers- a not uncommon occurrence in the current climate- and hateful slurs from strangers, the siblings reconvene in Los Angeles with a tentative plan to murder their father.

  ÂI cannot lie. This was a tough work to get through. Not because of the biting satire, which I actually quite appreciated, but because of my ambivalence toward the majority of the characters. Most are deeply flawed and not so much in an anti-hero/anti-heroine way, as much as in an unrelatable way.