Elsey Come Home

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