Fleishman Is in Trouble
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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST - A masterpiece (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition Now an Emmy Award-nominated FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam BrodyONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly, The New York Public Library
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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.
Alma's Best Jewish Novel of the Year - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the New York Times bestseller author of Fleishman Is in Trouble. She's also contributed to GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and a variety of other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525510871 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525510877 |
| Title | Fleishman Is in Trouble |
| Author | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2019-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for National Book Awards (Fiction) 2019 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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