Fleishman Is in Trouble

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Divorce, midlife crisis, and misunderstood realities.

"Fleishman Is in Trouble" is a sharp dissection of modern marriage and ambition seen through the eyes of a newly single man navigating the tumultuous waters of midlife and dating. If you've ever wondered about the intricacies of relationships, the unspoken struggles of balancing personal identity with societal expectations, and the humor that can be found in even the most trying circumstances, this book might just speak to you in ways you didn't know you needed to hear.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2019)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Debut Novel (2019)
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Fleishman Is in Trouble

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ISBN: 9780525510888
Publisher: Random House
Date of Publication: 2019-06-18
Format: 400 pages
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.65
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If you could do it all over again, would you? Should you? One man finds out in this finely observed, compulsively readable, and occasionally raunchy novel of marriage, sex, and dating for readers of Jonathan Franzen, Lauren Groff, and Tom Perrotta. Recently separated Toby Fleischman is suddenly, somehow--and at age forty-one, short as ever--surrounded by women who want him: women who are self-actualized, women who are smart and interesting, women who don't mind his height, women who are eager to take him for a test drive with just the swipe of an app. Toby doesn't mind being used in this way; it's a welcome change from the thirteen years he spent as a married man, the thirteen years of emotional neglect and contempt he's just endured. Anthropologically speaking, it's like nothing he ever experienced before, particularly back in the 1990s, when he first began dating and became used to swimming in the murky waters of rejection. But Toby's new life--liver specialist by day, kids every other weekend, rabid somewhat anonymous sex at night--is interrupted when his ex-wife suddenly disappears. Either on a vision quest or a nervous breakdown, Toby doesn't know--she won't answer his texts or calls. Is Toby's ex just angry, like always? Is she punishing him, yet again, for not being the bread winner she was? As he desperately
 

Divorce, midlife crisis, and misunderstood realities.

"Fleishman Is in Trouble" is a sharp dissection of modern marriage and ambition seen through the eyes of a newly single man navigating the tumultuous waters of midlife and dating. If you've ever wondered about the intricacies of relationships, the unspoken struggles of balancing personal identity with societal expectations, and the humor that can be found in even the most trying circumstances, this book might just speak to you in ways you didn't know you needed to hear.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2019)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Debut Novel (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.