Elysian Fields

<p>Winner of rare double crown of starred reviews from both <em>Publishers Weekly</em> and <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>. • <em>Publishers Weekly</em> Featured Fiction selection. </p><p>Simpson Weems is a 36-year-old aspiring poet whose life has been on hold-to the breaking point. All he needs to fulfill his potential is to move to San Francisco but he's torn between his long-held dream of being a great artist and obligations to his ailing mother and his emotionally volatile brother the all-demanding Bartholomew. Will someone in his family have to die before he can get to California? And how might that be arranged? </p>