Elsey Come Home

Author: Conley, Susan

Brand: VINTAGE

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 256

Release Date: 05-11-2019

Part Number: 0525562559_used

Details: Product Description
NAMED A POPSUGAR BOOK OF THE YEAR

When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, she knows he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we’re done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling in love with Lukas. Now, with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as artist, mother, and wife, Elsey fills her days worrying, drinking, and descending into boredom and unhappiness. So she agrees to go. There, she meets a group of men and women who will forever alter the way she understands herself, and help her to finally embark on a journey to address her own pain and find her way back to her marriage. 

Written in a voice at once wry, sensual, blunt, and hypnotic, 
Elsey Come Home is a modern odyssey and a quietly dynamic portrait of contemporary womanhood.
Review
“[An] intricate, delicate-as-rice-paper novel.”
—
O, The Oprah Magazine
 
“A necessary look at the identity crisis women can face when the world forces them into boxes.”
—
Marie Claire
 
“Elsey’s voice is a triumph. It sings. The writing is exquisite. . . . There is so much at stake here, and even the small moments resonate. I loved, loved this novel.”
—Lily King, author of
Euphoria

 
“I loved
Elsey Come Home. The exotic setting, the characters Elsey meets along the way—her husband, her little girls, her dilemma. And the writing, spare and lovely. What more can I say—perfect.”
—Judy Blume, author of
In the Unlikely Event

“Sometimes the structure of a novel so suits its content, so fully allows characters to inhabit the page, that it’s hard to imagine any other arrangement. So it is with Susan Conley’s twisty, absorbing new novel, with its brief urgent chapters that read like dispatches from near and far. . . . Readers may come away from this book marveling at the small miracle they’ve just witnessed. . . .  Elsey is that rare creation that evokes real life, defies predictability and disarms us at every turn. Conley has taken a jittery pile of loose ends and made a thing of beauty.”
—
Portland Press Herald
 
“A beautiful, ethereal piece of writing. . . . Packed with emotional resonance and deftly-turned phrases.”
—
The Maine Edge
 
“Even within a few paragraphs of this exploration of motherhood and individuality, Elsey’s voice and emotional turbulence leap off the page.”
—
The Huffington Post
 
“Beautifully written. . . . A thought-provoking novel.”
—
Washington Times

 
“Conley’s prose exudes purpose and rhythm, an unusually lovely combination, creating a rich mood and atmosphere that will have you craving a trip to China.” —
Fodor’s
 
“
Elsey Come Home is a smart, wry, and immersive coming-of-middle-age story of growth and womanhood.”
—
Hello Giggles
 
“[A] well-paced, quietly moving novel. . . . [Elsey’s] thoughtful, vulnerable, honest articulation of her pain--told from a distant future vantage point--is what truly drives her story toward resolution.” —
Shelf Awareness

 “Probing questions about how to balance motherhood, a career, marriage, and a drinking problem resonate throughout Conley’s excellent novel . . . [
Elsey Come Home is] an honest and astute depiction of the human psyche.”
—
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“Conley's novel illustrates the power of storytelling as a process for healing. What entices and endures here is the voice: dreamy, meditative, hypnotic, and very real.”
—
Kirkus Reviews

 
“Moving.”
—
Southern Living
 
“An intimate declaration of independence. . . . Readers will be hard-pressed not to finish the slender volume in one sitting.”
—
HeraldMailMedia
 
“A quiet, contemplative portrait of a woman searching for herself.”
—
Book Page
 
“Author of the memoir
The Foremost Good Fortune, an
O, the Oprah Magazine ‘Top Ten’ pick, and the debut novel
Paris Was the Place, a
People Magazine Top Pick, Conley returns with a new novel carrying the poignancy and fraught scrape of

EAN: 9780525562559

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English