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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Some
Moderate language; NYC professional social milieu
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit dating app sexual encounters in early chapters; the novel interrogates rather than celebrates them
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate drinking among Manhattan professionals
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Marital estrangement and competing narratives, a woman's ambition misread by everyone around her, midlife identity
What this book is about
Toby Fleishman is forty-one, freshly divorced, a hepatologist in New York, and suddenly awash in dating app possibilities. Then his ex-wife Rachel drops off their kids and vanishes — no warning, no word. Narrated by his old friend Libby, the novel follows the investigation into Rachel's absence, slowly revealing that the marriage Toby has been describing was seen very differently from the other side. Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut novel dismantles contemporary ambition, gender, and marriage with surgical precision.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
explicit sexual content in early chapters
frank examination of infidelity and divorce
unreliable narrator revealing painful truths
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