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Elsey Come Home
Elsey Come Home | Susan Conley
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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Clwojick
Elsey Come Home | Susan Conley
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I decided I didn‘t want to turn the oven or stove on, so I made a salad for dinner instead. Spinach, cucumber, gala apple, mandarin oranges, blueberries, sunflower seeds, topped strawberry fig balsamic reduction. This was a short audiobook, so I‘m almost finished already. It was okay, but not great. Can‘t love them all 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Leftcoastzen Looks beautiful and delicious! (edited) 5y
SharonAlger That looks utterly delicious! 5y
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Clwojick
Elsey Come Home | Susan Conley
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Next up! Digging into another audiobook so I can make dinner, and then curl up with a few puzzle books. ☺️Has anyone heard of this one before? I found it on Libby, but it wasn‘t on my radar prior to downloading it.

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Andrew65 Not heard of this book, but a fantastic time! Well done! 👏👏👏 5y
Clwojick @Andrew65 thanks! 5y
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Lottie_peppers
Elsey Come Home | Susan Conley
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The writing style was so succinct and the story completely captured my interest. An easy read, that left me thinking it was not an easy book.

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Coffeedaily
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“I felt embarrassed. But the woman smiled at me and wrote down what I‘d said on her iPhone-I could see it on her List of Things to Do as a Parent. Hug the Children More.”

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Coffeedaily
Elsey Come Home | Susan Conley
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#socksunday So far so good.

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Erinreadsthebooks
Elsey Come Home | Susan Conley
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Bailedbailed

Maybe we'll work out another time, Book, but for now we're taking a break. Forty pages in and it's not working. I think about other books as I read, and therefore, I'm moving on. It's me, not you...(maybe).

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JenniferJR
Elsey Come Home | Susan Conley
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Loving everything about this book. #aaknopf

Tamra Arresting cover! 5y
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