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Fleishman Is in Trouble
A Literary Fiction Novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Subgenres:
- Divorce Fiction,
- Marriage Fiction,
- Domestic Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Divorce stories where parenting upends every plan
- Sharp takes on ambition and marriage in modern life
- Narratives that flip your perspective on who’s telling the truth
From Little Stack
Toby is a doctor getting a divorce from his ex, Rachel, and stepping his toe into online dating. Yet his life turns upside-down when Rachel leaves the kids with him and takes off without any communication. What follows offers a humorous critique on parenting, as well as gender roles and modern dating, as Toby struggles to balance fatherhood with work and his new, surprisingly active romantic life.
Toby’s tale is narrated by a female friend, which gives a fun, cheeky take on his situation. Read the book before watching the FX miniseries adaptation starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, and Lizzy Caplan.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • "A masterpiece" (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition.
Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return.
He had been working so hard to find equilibrium in his single life. The winds of his optimism, long dormant, had finally begun to pick up. Now this.. As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation.
But if Toby ever wants to truly understand what happened to Rachel and what happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place.. A searing, utterly unvarnished debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope.
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