Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel 'Fleishman Is In Trouble' offers an unsparing yet sympathetic depiction of the way we live now. Read our review
staffer who has made an art of the celebrity profile that leaves you wondering how she can be celebrating and condemning her subjects at the same time. And with this book, Brodesser-Akner has done exactly what her fictional counterpart promises to do. She writes with the heft and masterful wordplay of a Wolfe, but with empathy for and curiosity about all the players in the tale.
So on the one hand, Brodesser-Akner can go on for page after uproarious page describing the many women Fleishman has met via his phone’s new dating apps: “There was Sara from Oregon,” she writes, “who wanted to be a painter and had a death grip when she gave hand jobs. There was Bette, who had once been in a porno, or maybe just a homemade video that an ex-boyfriend then distributed, and who said, ‘That’s what she said’ four times over the course of two Cape Cods.
Libby herself is a relatively minor figure for much of the narrative, in the same way that Brodesser-Akner lets herself be present, but only so much, in her journalism. But both women write with a clear and addictive voice.will occasionally make you angry at the things the people in it do, but mostly it will make you hungry for whatever Brodesser-Akner is going to write next.
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