Elsey Come Home

By Susan Conley

Book Overview

The highly acclaimed author of Landslide delivers " an] intricate, delicate-as-rice-paper novel" (O, The Oprah Magazine) about an ex-pat in China who embarks on a journey that takes her into the darkest corners of addiction, marriage, and motherhood.

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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525562559
• ISBN13: 9780525562559
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"