The release date for the English version of 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' by
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is Jun 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
After a recent breakup, Toby Fleishman, 41, is suddenly and inexplicably surrounded by women who want him: self-actualized, intelligent, interesting women who don't mind his height and who are ready to take him for a test drive with just a swipe of an app. Compared to the last thirteen years of emotional neglect and disdain he had as a married man, Toby finds this new kind of usage to be rather pleasant and doesn't mind at all. Anthropologically, it's unlike anything he's ever encountered, especially in the early 1990s when he started dating and became used to navigating the murky seas of rejection.
However, Toby's new existence as a liver specialist by day, a child every other weekend, and a wild, semi-anonymous sex enthusiast at night is shattered when his ex-wife abruptly vanishes. She won't respond to his calls or messages, so Toby can't tell whether she's having a nervous breakdown or is on a vision quest.
Is Toby's ex-girlfriend merely irate as usual? Is she punishing him for not being the breadwinner that she once was again? Toby is compelled to face the genuine reasons for his marriage's disintegration and consider if the narrative he has been telling himself for so long is accurate as he frantically looks for her while balancing his career and raising their two troubled kids.