The Trouble with You, Ellen Feldman
The Trouble with You, Ellen Feldman
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The Trouble with You

Author: Ellen Feldman

Narrator: Kathryn Markey

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/20/2024


Synopsis

Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II, when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble with You is the story of Fanny Fabricant, whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Educated for a career as a wife and mother, she is torn between her cousin Mimi, who is determined to keep her a “nice girl,” and her aunt Rose, who has a rebellious past of her own.

Forging a new life, she gets a job in radio serials. Then through her friendship with an actress who stars in and a man who writes the series, she comes face-to-face with the blacklist, which is wrecking lives. Ultimately, Fanny must decide between playing it safe or doing what is right in this vivid evocation of a world that seems at once light-years away and strangely immediate.

“Wonderful . . . An ode to the power, resilience, and ambition of women everywhere in any era.”—Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane

About Ellen Feldman

Ellen Feldman is the acclaimed author of Scottsboro, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, which was translated into nine languages, Next to Love, Terrible Virtue, The Unwitting and Lucy. A former Guggenheim Fellow in fiction, she has a BA and MA in modern history from Bryn Mawr College and after graduate studies at Columbia University, she worked for a New York publishing house, like Charlotte in Paris Never Leaves You. She has lectured around the US, Germany and the UK. She lives in New York and Amagansett with her husband and rescue terrier Charlie.


Reviews

The Trouble With You was the second book I had the pleasure of reading by Ellen Feldman. It was well written and well plotted. The Trouble With You took place during the years of World War II and then through the decade of the 1950’s in New York City. The men that had served in World War II had eith......more

It is post World War II, and we meet Fanny Fabricant, her husband, Max, and their daughter Chloe. Fanny was the lucky one because her husband came back from the war. She wasn’t lucky for too long, though, because her life changed one night. We follow Fanny as she goes to work much to the gossiping of o......more