📚taffyakner's debut novel makes me feel seen
"I feel like, if I'd been born a man," Taffy Brodesser-Akner told me,"I would not have fucked it up."
And, as if to make him even more empathetic, Fleishman is narrated by one of Toby's oldest friends, a woman named Libby, a wife and a mother who lives in New Jersey and used to have a career as a journalist for a men's magazine.
"I was able to do this thing that I do in real life," Brodesser-Akner told me,"which is first empathize with someone, and then ask some hard questions." However, Brodesser-Akner, despite sharing many things in common with Libby, is not her narrator; she did not leave her career to stay home with her kids; she actually, as she explained to me, pursued her career specifically because she wanted to be able to be with them as much as possible. However, as with every choice related to motherhood and being a woman, Brodesser-Akner's career has come with its own complications.
This is the kind of thing—a mortgage, money—that women have become conditioned to pretend isn't a factor in their professional choices—particularly when they work in a competitive field, and they're one of the top performers. It's a problem that Rachel Fleishman deals with too; she gets judged for her professional ambition and her success, the implication being: You've achieved so much, why not just...
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