kp’s Reviews > Fleishman Is in Trouble > Status Update

For a while, I thought I was reading another mid-life crisis book about a man with a sex drive who can't be happy (I'm talking to you John Updike and Philip Roth), but Brodesser-Akner manages to intervene in rather than to join that band of merry masculine complainers with some perspectival shifts that up the ante on talking about marriage, money, and modernity. Sometimes a little flimsy, but provocative and real.