A review by ralovesbooks
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.0

I got this book from the library after watching the FX series, and it was pretty good. Too much sex for me (we get it, let's move on), and I can appreciate the complicated story that the author was trying to tell. However, an omniscient, first-person, singular narrator makes no sense. How would Libby have even known everything she was saying? I would have preferred some kind of omniscient, first-person, plural narrator among Libby and Seth. It would have been weird (like The Mothers or The Weird Sisters), but at least then you could chalk up their knowledge of Toby's personal life and THOUGHTS to some paranormal situation. That was distracting as a mechanism. And then, I just felt like it was too much story. Is it about Toby and Rachel? Is it about Libby? I know, it's about all of them. But it felt too weighed down and ultimately clunky to me.