Fleishman Is in Trouble

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

There was not a number at which anyone said, “I have a good life. I’d like to see if I can help someone else have a good life.”

Can you imagine what it’s like to have arrived where you want to be at such a young age? That was what she never understood: that ambition didn’t always run uphill. Sometimes, when you were happy, it jogged in place.