Fleishman Is in Trouble – Cannonball Read 17

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Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

December 27, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I’m a big fan of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s celebrity profile pieces for magazines like The New Yorker and GQ- they are smart, insightful and well-written essays that reflect on larger cultural issues as filtered through the lens of a particular celebrity. Given this history, I had high hopes for her first novel. The plot in Fleishman is straightforward: Toby Fleishman, a specialist physician in Manhattan, is in the process of divorcing his wife, Rachel. Rachel drops their two kids off at Toby’s rental apartment one morning […]

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September 28, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

I am seven reviews behind and I’m determined to get these done before I start another book. This grouping is my ‘grown up’ books before I get to another four Young Adult books. Fleishman Is In Trouble: I adore Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s work as a profile writer so I was very excited to pick up her first novel. I felt simultaneously very seen by and put off by this book. Toby Fleishman is a divorcing father of two who finds himself unexpectedly saddled with his two […]

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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

September 9, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I heard about this book from so many people that loved it and I was reading this yesterday wondering if the author was ever going to get to the point. I didn’t dislike any character, I just didn’t feel engaged. Brodesser-Akner chose to tell this story via certain narrative styles that didn’t work. We have a first person point of view told by someone who used to be close to one of the characters that we follow for most of this book (her name is […]

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