Тэффи Бродессер-Акнер — новинки

In 1980 a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in a cloistered town on the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of moving on with their lives. They resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that although their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what ensured their safety. But nearly forty years later, when Carl’s mother dies and the family comes home to mourn her, it becomes clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything.

Развод Флейшманов выходит на неожиданный виток: Рэйчел оставила детей Тоби и перестала выходить на связь. Голосами Тоби и его давней подруги, Либби, история о семейной жизни в большом городе рассказана по-новому.

Тэффи Бродессер-Акнер – штатный писатель The New York Times Magazine, также пишет для GQ, ESPN The Magazine и многих других журналов. «Флейшман в беде» – ее первый роман.

Ироничная проза, которая изменит ваш взгляд на природу отношений и побудит внимательнее относиться к своей второй половине. 41-летний врач Тоби Флейшман думал, что знает все о своей жене, — пока она не бросила его с детьми спустя 15 лет брака. Обманутый муж упивается своим несчастным положением. И попутно начинает активно и хаотично ходить на свидания, но ведь на нем дети, поэтому особенно не разгуляешься. Эту историю рассказывает бывшая журналистка Либби, давняя подруга Тоби. Мы смотрим на брак Флейшманов глазами Либби и видим самоотверженного отца, хорошего мужа, который страдает от дурного характера жены. Но есть ли вероятность,…

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 . . .

Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen 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.

As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation. But if Toby ever wants to truly understand what happened to Rachel and what happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place.

A searing, utterly unvarnished debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope.

Finally free from his nightmare of a 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 . . .