Elsey Come Home: A Novel
Written by Susan Conley
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
From the widely praised author of Paris Was the Place — a shattering new novel that bravely delves 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 passionately for Lukas, the tall, Danish MC at a warehouse rave in downtown Beijing. Now, with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as painter, mother, and, especially, wife, Elsey fills her days worrying, drinking, and descending into desperate unhappiness. So, brochure in hand, she agrees to go and confront the ghosts of her past.
There, she meets a group of men and women who will forever alter the way she understands herself: from Tasmin, another (much richer) expat, to Hunter, a young man whose courage endangers them all, and, most important, Mei — wife of one of China's most famous artists and a renowned painter herself — with whom Elsey quickly forges a fierce friendship and whose candidness about her pain helps Elsey understand her own.
But Elsey must risk tearing herself and Lukas further apart when she decides she must return to her childhood home — the center of her deepest pain — before she can find her way back to him.
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.
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Reviews for Elsey Come Home
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I really wanted to like this book. The story was okay, but I found it a bit dry and uneventful. In this day and age I do think that it's hard to maintain your identity (and sometimes your sanity) after becoming a parent, there just wasn't really any climax to the story. The characters weren't overly interesting. The writing, however was beautifully in spots throughout the book. Three stars is where I would rate this one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5it was quite a nice listen but nothing extraordinary .