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The Trouble with You by Ellen Feldman

The Trouble with You

A Novel

by Ellen Feldman

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  • Feb 2024, 368 pages
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Janet Schneider

1950s Soap Opera Writer During The Red Scare
In Ellen Feldman’s timely new novel The Trouble With You, Fanny Fabricant has barely had a chance to welcome her beloved and happily-returned WWII veteran husband home when a sudden event radically alters her anticipated life course. Raised to be an excellent suburban housewife, she finds herself instead job hunting as a single mother in a postwar world where women were leaving the workforce, not entering it. Aided by her intrepid Aunt Rose, Fanny lands a coveted secretarial spot on a national radio show, where she begins to rebuild her life as an independent woman at a time when her peers are constrained bymore
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Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - A satisfying ending - historical fiction fans will enjoy
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 other women at this time because women didn't work, but she had no choice.

THE TROUBLE WITH YOU dragged until mid point, caught my interest after that, but it still wasn’t a book I was anxious to get back to even though Ms. Feldman’s writing and research were well done.

My favorite character was Chloe…she was so sweetmore
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