Fleishman Is in Trouble

Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated : weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. But he could not have predicted that one summer day Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and not return. He had been working so hard to find equilibrium in his new, single life ; he had just now, here in his summer of sexual emancipation, been allowing the winds of his optimism to finally, finally kick up.
As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation. But if Toby ever wants to truly understand what happened to Rachel and what happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place.
A searing, utterly unvarnished debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope.