Fiction by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Toby Fleishman is getting divorced, and he's just discovering the shallow world of online dating when his (almost-ex) wife Rachel brings his kids (Hannah and Solly) to his place unexpectedly. It's their scheduled weekend, but she drops them off them more than a day early and in the middle of night. Then Rachel disappears, even though she was supposed to have retrieved Hannah and Solly at the end of the weekend and taken them to the Hamptons for a vacation. Has something happened to her?
Semi-spoiler alert: Nothing happened to Rachel. That's not what the book is about. The book is about the characters (mostly Toby, but also his friends Libby and Seth, and eventually Rachel) complaining endlessly about their lives and never actually understanding how much they are contributing to their own unhappiness. Also none of them listen to each other, or even seem to try to understand what anyone else feels.
It was really a depressing book.
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