Justin Halpern

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: "That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them." "Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking." "The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two." More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.

A Justin Halpern le ha dejado su novia. Justin tiene veintinueve años y se encuentra viviendo en casa con su padre, Sam Halpern, un tipo "como Sócrates, pero despeinado y con peor carácter", de setenta y tres. Sam nunca se ha andado con medias tintas a la hora de dar su opinion, asi que su hijo decide recopilar todas las ridiculeces que suelta: "Que buena estaba esa tia. [...] ¿Que no estaba a tu alcance? Hijo, deja que las mujeres determinen por si mismas la razon por la que no van a follar contigo. No lo hagas tu por ellas", "¿La gente de tu edad sabe peinarse? Parece que se les hubieran subido dos ardillas a la cabeza y se hubieran puesto a follar como locas"...

28 years old, I found myself living at home, with my 73-year-old father. As a child, my father never minced words, and when I screwed up, he had a way of cutting right through the bullshit and pointing out exactly why I was being an idiot. When I moved back in I was still, for the most part, an idiot. But this time, I was smart enough to write down all the things he said to me...' Meet Justin Halpern and his dad. Almost 1.5 million people follow Mr Halpern's philosophical musings every day on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his sayings. What emerges is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father and son relationship from a major new comic voice. As Justin says at one point, his dad is 'like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair and this is the sort of shit he says.. '

Neskalagunak abandonatu eta lana galdu ostean, gurasoen etxera itzuli zen Justin Halpern hogeita zortzi urterekin, eta aita jubilatu berriarekin egin zuen topo bertan. Betiko aita autoritario, lehor, zakarrarekin… eta haren ateraldi desegokiekin. Baina, halako batean, aitaren ateraldiak jasanezinak bezain dibertigarriak zirela ohartu zen Justin, ingenioz eta nortasunez beteak eta, egunero, haietariko bat twitterren argitaratzen hasi zen. Hasieran, jarraitzaile gutxi batzuk baino ez zituen, gero ehun, mila, hamar mila, berrogeita hamar mila. Hala sortu zen aita-seme batzuen arteko maitasun harreman absurdu eta irrigarria biltzen duen liburu hau.

El retrat caòtic, còmic i ben real de la relació entre un pare i un fill en ple segle XXI, narrada amb una veu molt innovadora. A en Justin l'ha deixat la nòvia. Té 29 anys i ha de tornar a casa