Rowan Beaird is a fiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and The Common, among others. She is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and StoryStudio, and she currently works at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her first novel, The Divorcées, is out this month from Flatiron Books.
At Lit Hub Beaird tagged "eight books that explore the ends of marriages and the new beginnings that follow." One title on the list:
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in TroubleRead about the other entries on the list.
This novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (who should be contractually obligated to interview every celebrity alive) explores so many things: divorce, dating in the twenty-first century, and entering the murky period of middle age. It’s also somehow a compelling mystery.
Toby Fleishman is undergoing an acrimonious divorce from his wife Rachel, a successful talent agent. One morning, after Rachel unexpectedly drops their children off at Toby’s apartment, she disappears. What follows is an account of Toby’s search for both Rachel and himself.
Fleishman Is in Trouble is among Claire Kilroy's top ten novels about motherhood.
--Marshal Zeringue
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