Fleishman Is in Trouble

Publisher's Summary New York Times  best seller • National Book Award Longlist "A feminist jeremiad nested inside a brilliant comic novel - a book that makes you laugh so hard you don’t notice till later that your eyebrows have been singed off." (Ron Charles,  The Washington Post ) Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and the New York Public Library and one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review •  Time • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Vogue • NPR •  Chicago Tribune • GQ  • Vox • Refinery29 • Elle • The Guardian • Real Simple • Parade •  Good Housekeeping • Marie Claire •  Town & Country • Evening Standard • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness A finely observed, timely exploration of marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition from one of the most exciting writers working today Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost 15 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. …