Taffy Brodesser-Akner

"Dr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by women. Women who are self-actualized and independent and know what they want--and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he finally extracted himself from his nightmare of a marriage? Who knew that there were women out there who would actually look at him with softness and desire? But just as the winds of his optimism are beginning to pick up, they're quickly dampened, and then extinguished, when his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears. Toby thought he knew what to expect when he moved out: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, tense co-parenting negotiations. He never thought that one day Rachel would just drop their children off at his place and never come back. As Toby tries to figure out what happened and what it means, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if Toby 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. A searing, funny, and electric debut from one of the most exciting writers working today, Fleishman Is In Trouble is an exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of both our great wariness and our great optimism"--

A Novel

Fleishman Is in Trouble

In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.

But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.

Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family’s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

Long Island Compromise

Soon to Be a Major TV Series Starring Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg

Fleishman Is in Lockdown

• Best seller del New York Times. • Finalista del National Book Award. • Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2019 según Entertainment Weekly y La Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York. Toby Fleishman creyó saber qué podía esperar cuando él y su mujer, con quien ha estado casado durante casi quince años, se separan: fines de semana y vacaciones alternadas con los niños, alguna amargura residual, algún momento de tensión esporádico para negociar la crianza compartida de sus hijos. Pero no podía predecir que un día, en el medio de su emancipación sexual recién adquirida, Rachel dejaría a sus dos hijos en su casa y no volvería más. Toby se había esforzado tanto por encontrar un equilibrio en su vida de soltero. Los vientos de su optimismo, largamente inactivos, recién se habían puesto en marcha. Y ahora esto. Mientras Toby intenta averiguar dónde fue Rachel, a la vez que hace malabarismos con sus pacientes del hospital, sus tareas parentales que no se acaban nunca y su recientemente adquirida popularidad sexual en las apps, termina siendo la prolija narrativa del marido rechazado y la mujer excesivamente ambiciosa. Pero si Toby quiere comprender de veras lo que le sucedió a Rachel y a su matrimonio, tendrá que aceptar que quizá no ha sido totalmente objetivo en su análisis de los hechos. Un debut mordaz y sin tapujos, Fleishman está en apuros es una exploración perspicaz, inquietante y a menudo hilarante de una cultura que intenta gestionar las profundas líneas divisorias de una institución que ha demostrado ser digna de profundos recelos y profundas esperanzas.

Fleishman está en apuros

"Toby Fleishman creyó saber qué podía esperar cuando él y su mujer, con quien ha estado casado durante casi quince años, se separan: fines de semana y vacaciones alternadas con los niños, alguna amargura residual, algún momento de tensión esporádico para negociar la crianza compartida de sus hijos. Pero no podía predecir que un día, en el medio de su emancipación sexual recién adquirida, Rachel dejaría a sus dos hijos en su casa y no volvería más. Toby se había esforzado tanto por encontrar un equilibrio en su vida de soltero. Los vientos de su optimismo, largamente inactivos, recién se habían puesto en marcha. Y ahora esto. Mientras Toby intenta averiguar dónde fue Rachel, a la vez que hace malabarismos con sus pacientes del hospital, sus tareas parentales que no se acaban nunca y su recientemente adquirida popularidad sexual en las apps, termina siendo la prolija narrativa del marido rechazado y la mujer excesivamente ambiciosa. Pero si Toby quiere comprender de veras lo que le sucedió a Rachel y a su matrimonio, tendrá que aceptar que quizá no ha sido totalmente objetivo en su análisis de los hechos. Un debut mordaz y sin tapujos, Fleishman está en apuros es una exploración perspicaz, inquietante y a menudo hilarante de una cultura que intenta gestionar las profundas líneas divisorias de una institución que ha demostrado ser digna de profundos recelos y profundas esperanzas."--Provided by publisher.

Fleishman Esta En Apuros

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild rise of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble In 1982, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and sons a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream. But twenty-five years later, when Carl's mother dies and the family comes home to mourn her, the unprocessed drama that's been bubbling beneath the surface finally comes to the fore for the entire family: Carl, the prickly, still-terrified father, who has been secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping for years; his wife, Ruth, who has spent her potential protecting her husband's emotional health; and their three grown sons: Nathan, who is trying to stay on the promotion track at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood producer, who will consume anything--substance, foodstuff, women--in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and J.J., the cool observer who spends his life so bent on proving that he is not a product of the family's pathology that he comes to define it. After Carl buries his mother, he allows himself to acknowledge what happened to him all those years ago, and to finally face the question that's been idling in his mind for a quarter of a century: Where did the ransom go? Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family's history, winding through decades and generations all the way through the wild present, and deals with all the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the fear of history, old wives' tales, evil eyes, orgies, dybbuks, a Mandy Patinkin obsession, hippies, right-wing capitalists, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unites a family forever.

Fleishman a pezzi

Pan i pani Fleishman

Toby et Rachel, couple juif privilégié vivant dans les quartiers chics de Manhattan, se séparent. Après quinze ans de vie commune et deux enfants, ils ne parviennent plus à se comprendre. Pour Toby, simple médecin d'hôpital, c'est une forme de libération. Rachel était devenue agressive et méprisante avec sa carrière bien plus florissante que la sienne. Toby s'accommode donc assez bien de ce divorce, et de son nouveau célibat de quadra dans une ville qui foisonne de femmes célibataires. Mais tout bascule quand Rachel disparaît littéralement de la circulation : elle ne vient pas chercher les enfants comme prévu pour les emmener en vacances et surtout, ne donne plus le moindre signe de vie. Toby se retrouve donc à devoir jongler entre les enfants, son métier très prenant et ses nombreuses conquêtes... [payot.ch].

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