Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications. Fleishman Is in Trouble is her first novel.
“This glorious debut has the humor of Maria Semple, the
heart of Meg Wolitzer, the lustiness of Philip Roth, and a voice
that is pure. It’s wild and wonderful and goes in so many
directions, each with profundity—my favorite thing that novels can
do. How does one's favorite journalist become one's new
favorite novelist? With this book.”—Emma Straub
“When his ex drops the kids off and doesn’t come back, a father of
two revisits the choices that led to this moment. He searches for
answers, hilariously and heartbreakingly avoiding the darkest
questions. Brodesser-Akner’s debut is a referendum on marriage,
friendship, and how we live (and love) right now.”—People
“Whip-smart, gleefully scatological . . . [Brodesser-Akner] aims a
perfect gimlet eye at the city’s relentless self-regard. . . . But
her best trick may be the novel’s narrator: An elusive presence
identified at first only as an old friend of Toby’s from their
study-abroad days, she turns out to be both the book’s Trojan horse
and—in a brilliant third-act pivot—its greatest gift, transforming
a fizzy comedy of manners into something genuinely, unexpectedly
profound.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Many novelists have written excellent fictional indictments of
interpersonal and systemic sexism. Not since Teju Cole’s Open
City—a very different book in all other respects—has a novelist put
the reader on the wrong side the way Brodesser-Akner does. To do
so, she uses a lot of intelligence, a lot of anger, a great sense
of humor and a whole new variation on the magic we know from her
magazine work. The result is a maddening, unsettling masterpiece,
and, yes, you will be moved and inexplicably grateful at the
end.”—NPR
“In her witty and well-observed debut, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
updates the miserable-matrimony novel, dropping it squarely in our
times. . . . Brodesser-Akner has written a potent, upsetting and
satisfying novel, illustrating how the marital pledge—build our
life together—overlooks a key fact: There are two lives.”—The New
York Times Book Review
“Electric . . . Brodesser-Akner’s first foray into fiction—set in
Manhattan, the Hamptons, and Israel—is funny, stylish, and
insightful, whether describing men’s challenged communication
skills or the knife juggler’s agility required to maintain a modern
marriage.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s sharp debut novel is packed with humor and
heart. In it, the titular trouble begins when Toby Fleishman
realizes that Rachel—his wife of 15 years, from whom he’s now
separated—is missing. Where has she gone, and why? This book will
have you racing through the pages to find the answers.”—Southern
Living
“Everything you could wish for in a satisfying summer
read . . . Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s page-turner
doubles as a satirical take on modern relationships.”—Women’s
Health
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