Elsey Come Home

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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. Download Elsey Come Home – kino-fada.fr Not a terrible book but, how can I put it, a bit boring.Susan Conley s Elsey Come Home revolves around alcoholism, marriage, and motherhood Maine born and bred Elsey lives in Beijing with Lukas, her Danish electronic musician husband and their two young daughters Elsey tells us that I didn t know how to be in a marriage A real marriage I m not sure he did, eitherOnce a commercially successful artist represented by no less than Saatchi, Elsey has stopped painting Her recovery from thyroid surgery and her recurring arm pain sap her ener Susan Conley s Elsey Come Home revolves around alcoholism, marriage, ...There s something about Elsey you re bound to like.She s vulnerable and open, wry and perceptive, refreshingly blunt and self deprecating but most of all, she s hurting up a storm When we first meet her, she is about to venture forth on a week long mountain retreat, a chance for participants to reinvent themselves It s a veiled ultimatum from her husband Lucas, who is almost at the end of his rope from her drinking issues Elsey s fear is that if she goes, she and Lucas may never find each oth There s something about Elsey you re bound to like.She s vulnerable and open, wry and perceptive, refreshingly blunt and self deprecating but most of all, she s hurting up a storm When we first meet her, she is about to venture forth on a week long mountain retreat, a chance for participants to reinvent themselves It s a veiled ultimatum from her husband Lucas, who is almost at the end of his rope from her drinking issues Elsey s fear is that if she goes, she and Lucas may never find each other again.Elsey...Elsey is a woman who is fearful of intimacy and goes so far as to lie or dissociate rather than deal with her emotions She was once a fairly well known and respected artist who sold her work regularly However, after marrying Lukas and having children, she feels like she can t be both a mother and an artist Instead, she drinks.and then drinks someLukas is beside himself, as the children have grown frightened and often neglected He strongly suggests that Elsey go on a retreat to Shas Elsey is a woman who is fearful of intimacy and goes so far as to lie or dissociate rather than deal with her emotions She was once a fairly well known and respected artist who sold her work regularly However, after marrying Lukas and having children, she feels like she can t be both a mother and an artist Instead, she drinks.and then drinks someLukas is beside himself, as the children have grown frightened and often neglected He strongly suggests that Elsey go on a retreat to Shashan to help find herself and, in Elsey s mind, to become sober.Currently, they are living in China because Lukas is a musician and his electronic music is very popular there He has tried to reach out to Elsey in every way possible but he is unable to reach her, really reach her There marriage is at stake and Lukas hopes this retreat will help save it In Shashan, a mountain retreat where she ...She s a wife, a mother, an artist who doesn t believe in herself When her husband Lukas tells her about a retreat called Shashan, she leaves her family for a week of rediscovering herself, waiting for that moment when she is fixed from her demons Here s an excerpt that really struck me I worked hard then to remember Lukas loved me and my girls loved me and that I wasn t being punished I was being helped I stayed caught between being weak and being helped and in this way Shashan called on She s a wife, a mother, an artist who doesn t believe in herself When her husband Lukas tells her about a retreat called Shashan, she leaves her family for a week of rediscovering herself, waiting for that moment when she is fixed from her dem...Elsey is not fully inhabiting her life or her skin She s American, from Maine, and living in Beijing with her husband Lukas, a successful electronic music composer and DJ, and their two young daughters, Myla and Elisabeth Once a successful painter, we are dropped into her world as she s grappling or not grappling with her drinking problem, her unresolved grief over the loss of her younger sister in childhood, and her husband s desire to fix their marriage Seemingly always quiet, she has gone Elsey is not fully inhabiting her life or her skin She s American, from Maine, and living in Beijing with her husband Lukas, a successful electronic music composer and DJ, and their two young daughters, Myla and Elisabeth Once a successful painter, we are dropped into her world as she s grappling or not grappling with her drinking problem, her unresolved grief over the loss of her younger sister in childhood, and her husband s desire to fix their marriage Seemingly always quiet, she has gone quieter, and has distanced herself from her f...Elsey is a woman who, at first, thinks she can keep running away from herself She gives up her art where all her emotions were expressed to try and be a mother Essentially this is about unresolved grief, if grief ever resolved More accurately it is about unexpressed grief She feels she is neither wife nor mother and tries to find solace in alcohol While at a retreat she becomes acquainted with an artist, Mei Mei so different from Elsey yet they click This is a novel about introspection E Elsey is a woman who, at first, thinks she can keep...Once a successful painter, Elsey can t find the joy she once felt in life Married with two children, Elsey drowns herself in alcohol and can t find her place as artist, wife and mother When her husband gives her a brochure for a mountain retreat she knows she has to go Once at the retreat Elsey meets people and finally understands what she has to do to find happiness A really great story Multi layered plot I really enjoyed this.I was give a copy from the publisher for my honest review.Dawn Once a successful painter, Elsey can t find the joy she once felt in life Married with two children, Elsey drowns herself in alcohol and can t find her place as artist, wife and mother When her husband gives her a brochure for a mountain retreat she knows she has to go Once at the retreat Elsey meets people and finally understan...This novel wasn t at all what I anticipated It was beautifully written and in places, it felt lyrical in other spots it was frantic and yet in others, it stopped and moved very slowly It took me about a quarter of the book to feel like I understood what was happening I almost stopped reading early on because I didn t know where we were going and I was feeling too distant and disconnected from Elsey, the protagonist I was sort of wrong and I m glad I kept going I think the early part of this This novel wasn t at all what I anticipated It was beautifully written and in places, it felt lyrical in oth...This spunky and surprising book is a meditation on motherhood what it gives and what it can take Why we put it off and also why we embrace it Which broken parts inside of us it can heal and which it never can In meditating on this singular and yet nearly universal experience in settings Conley makes familiar even when they aren t to this reader anyway this lyrical novelist exploresthan motherhood,than womanhood She explores the state of being human I would follow Elsey anywher This spunky and surprising book is a meditation on motherhood what it gives and what it can take Why we put it off and also why we embrace it Which broken parts inside of us it can heal and which it neve...

Elsey Come Home
  • English
  • 11 October 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 256 pages
  • Susan Conley
  • Elsey Come Home