Fleishman Is in Trouble

A Novel

Paperback, 400 pages

Published July 7, 2020 by Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House Trade.

ISBN:
978-0-525-51089-5
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This novel is amazing, I realized partway through it, and then again towards the end when I saw what the author was going for after all. It's a bit confusing if you don't get the conceit that it is structurally a story told in first person by the character Libby who uses her capabilities as a journalist to obtain a kind of omniscience into the inner life of the character of Toby Fleishman, who is portrayed for long stretches in what seems like the kind of third-person limited viewpoint where you are allowed to experience the inmost thoughts of the protagonist. It seemed at the beginning like a book motivated by the phenomenon of app-mediated hookup culture among non-monogamous people, which is entertaining enough in its strangeness (to me) to sustain a book. But the story very very gradually turns into a novel with much bigger game in its sights. …

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