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A canceled radio host and his wife flee to Europe. What could go wrong?

A canceled radio host and his wife flee to Europe. What could go wrong?

Washington Post31-01-2025
When we first meet Reuben and Cecilie, the couple at the center of 'Something Rotten,' Andrew Lipstein's third novel, they're doing what a lot of 30-somethings in Brooklyn are no doubt dreaming about as you read these words: leaving for an extended stay in Europe.
Cecilie, an investigative reporter for the New York Times, is taking belated parental leave so the couple and their infant son can stay with her mother in Copenhagen, where Cecilie grew up. She hands off her latest story to a smarmy male colleague who she's sure is plotting to usurp her status as the star reporter on her beat. Reuben is a stay-at-home dad, ground down by the never-ending demands of caring for a baby and ruminating on a very public humiliation — once a big-deal NPR host, Reuben was recently canceled, his reputation so toxic that he can't even get an entry-level audio job.
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