Originally published in English by Random House as Fleishman is in trouble.
Summary:
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. Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife, to whom he has been married for almost fifteen years, part ways: weekends and vacations alternated with the children, some residual bitterness, some sporadic tense moment to negotiate parenting But he couldn't predict that one day, in the midst of her newly acquired sexual emancipation, Rachel would leave her two children at home and never come back. Toby had tried so hard to find a balance in her life of single. The winds of his long-dormant optimism had just kicked in. And now this. As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, juggling his hospital patients, his never-ending parental duties and his recently acquired sexual popularity in apps, ends up being the long narrative of the rejected husband and the excessively ambitious wife. But if Toby wants to understand v you were what happened to Rachel and her marriage, he will have to accept that he may not have been totally objective in his analysis of the events. A biting and outspoken debut, Fleishman Is In Trouble is an insightful, haunting, and often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to manage the deep lines of an institution that has proven worthy of deep misgivings and deep hopes. -- Provided by publisher.
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