Fleishman Is In Trouble

FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE By Taffy Brodesser-Akner Nominations: Carnegie Longlist 2020, National Book Longlist 2019, National Book Critics Circle Finalist 2019, Women’s Prize Longlist 2020 Date Read: August 6, 2025 From Kirkus Reviews: “ It's not like Fleishman's estranged wife, a high-powered talent agent, was ever a very involved mother. But now she's dropped off the kids—while he was asleep —and disappeared. New York Times Magazine staff writer Brodesser-Akner's debut novel tracks Manhattan hepatologist Toby Fleishman through a painful divorce whose sting is mitigated somewhat by the wonders of his dating app. "Toby changed his search parameters to thirty-eight to forty-one, then forty to fifty, what the hell, and it was there that he found his gold mine: endlessly horny, sexually curious women who knew their value, who were feeling out something new, and whose faces didn't force him to have existential questions about youth and responsibility." A...