Jacob Fishman's Marriages

One couple. Two stories. One truth. Sort of.

Jacob Fishman is miserable. His wife, Cindi, is miserable.

His editor wants him to write another book.

Suffocating in his own self-consciousness, Jacob decides to explore the frailties, fears, and deficiencies of his life with Cindi including, most tellingly, her desire to have a baby-and his desire not to. He creates Fishman doppelgängers, literary avatars, to see if their lives can be better than his. He wills himself to the intersection of tr...