Scott Barron seems to have it all--a beautiful girlfriend, a dazzling career as a published poet, and a great future. In contrast, his younger brother Jes is a married, overweight, unpublished writer with a fondness for penguins. Then why is it that, to Scott, Jes' life always seems so much better? He finds out, but only after his girlfriend decides to split (just as he was about to say the 'L' word--and almost mean it), he makes a fool of himself on the BBC, his mother suddenly dies, and his estranged father shows up--a series of catastrophes that push him to the edge and then some. As...