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Fleishman Is in Trouble

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

A newly divorced man’s triumphant fresh start unravels when his ex-wife vanishes, forcing him to question everything he thought he knew about their marriage.

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About Fleishman Is in Trouble

Finally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears. While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place . . .

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  • divorce
  • parental abandonment
  • sexual content
  • infidelity
  • mental health issues
  • pregnancy
  • childbirth
  • misogyny
  • medical trauma
  • sexual assault
  • emotional abuse

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