Ross, twen­ty-three, isn’t near­ly as clever as he thinks he is. His bril­liant idea to break up with his girl­friend, Lora Lia­mant, in an attempt to show her how ter­ri­ble oth­er men are and how emp­ty life would be with­out him, has back­fired spec­tac­u­lar­ly. With­in weeks, he dis­cov­ers she’s moved on with the broth­er of a famous net­work TV actor. In the midst of his heart­break, Ross’s par­ents die trag­i­cal­ly — in a heli­copter crash at an all-inclu­sive resort in Turks and Caicos — leav­ing him with mil­lions of dol­lars and cus­tody over his teenage sis­ter.

Trau­ma­tized, rumi­nat­ing, and rich, Ross plots scheme after scheme to show Lora he’s changed into a respon­si­ble adult, even as she shows no indi­ca­tion of want­i­ng that. Every­thing he does seems to make mat­ters worse, as his mis­guid­ed mis­sion of self-trans­for­ma­tion only leads to Lora’s con­fu­sion and dis­may.

Let Me Try Again is a rich, reli­gious com­ic nov­el deal­ing with heart­break and iden­ti­ty in the twen­ty-first century.