On CutOnTuesdays, taffyakner talks marriage and what she learned from watching her friends go through divorce: “I realize that I didn’t think I was really married until I made it through this looking glass that my parents inadvertently set up … ”
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Subscribe on: Apple Podcast Google Podcast Spotify RSS Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a journalist at the New York Times and the author of the new novel Fleishman Is in Trouble. It’s a book about the miserable, painful dissolution of a marriage.BRODESSER-AKNER: Someone casually said to my husband, ‘Is it okay with you that she’s writing a book about the divorce?’ Like so many other people, their first novel is a coming-of-age novel … And he said, ‘She’s obsessed with divorce.
Like her husband said, divorce is a topic Brodesser-Akner’s been thinking about for a long time — ever since her parents split up, back when she was 6.BRODESSER-AKNER: I mean, I remember being very excited that we were going to have two new houses, which makes me feel very stupid. I was like, Oh, look at that, two birthday parties.
To hear what Brodesser-Akner learned when she started watching her friends go through divorce — and to hear her read an excerpt from Fleishman Is in Trouble — click above, and subscribe wherever you listen.
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