Description
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.
About the Author
Susan Conleyis the author ofLandslide(Knopf, February 2021): “a spectacular tale of hardship and healing. Conley has knocked it out of the park," (Lily King,Writers and Lovers). Susan's previous novelElsey Come Home(Knopf, 2019), was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Amazon Books, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living Magazine, Fodors, The Library Journal, Maine Women’s Magazine, and others.Susanis also the author ofParis Was the Place(Knopf, 2013), an Amazon Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, anElle MagazineReaders Prize Pick, and aPeoplemagazine Top Pick. Susan’s memoir,The Foremost Good Fortune(Knopf 2011), was excerpted in theNew York Times Magazineand the Daily Beast. It was anOprah MagazineTop Ten Pick of the Month, a Slate Magazine “Book of the Week” and a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award. It won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir. Other work of hers has appeared inThe New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post, Ploughshares, The Harvard Reviewand elsewhere.Susan has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. A former faculty member at Emerson College, she has also taught at Colby College and Simmons College. She currently teaches at the University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program, and is the co-founder ofThe Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing lab in Portland, Maine.
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