Elsey Come Home

<b>The highly acclaimed author of <i>Landslide </i>delivers&#160;&#147;[an] intricate delicate-as-rice-paper novel (<i>O The Oprah Magazine</i>) about an ex-pat in China who embarks on a journey that takes her into the darkest corners of addiction marriage and motherhood.&#160;<br></b><br>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&#146;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.&#160;<br><br>Written in a voice at once wry sensual blunt and hypnotic <i>Elsey Come Home </i>is a modern odyssey and a quietly dynamic portrait of contemporary womanhood.