{"product_id":"elsey-come-home","title":"Elsey Come Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE “BEST WOMEN’S FICTION OF 2019 (SO FAR)”—\u003ci\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eONE OF THE “61 BOOKS WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO READING IN 2019”—\u003ci\u003eTHE HUFFINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eONE OF THE “16 FICTION RELEASES TO WATCH FOR”—\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE “BEST NEW BOOKS COMING OUT WINTER 2019”—\u003ci\u003eSOUTHERN LIVING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eONE OF THE “10 NEWLY-RELEASED BOOKS THAT WILL GIVE YOU AN EXCUSE TO STAY INDOORS THIS WINTER”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eO MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“I loved, loved this novel” —Lily King             “What more can I say—perfect” —Judy Blume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this intricate, delicate-as-rice-paper novel, an American painter living in Beijing and trying to clean up her act at a yoga retreat makes gains in fits and starts, ‘a butterfly, flitting from leaf to leaf.’”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the widely praised author of \u003ci\u003eParis Was the Place\u003c\/i\u003e—a shattering new novel that bravely delves into the darkest corners of addiction, marriage, and motherhood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eElsey Come Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern odyssey and a quietly dynamic portrait of contemporary womanhood.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318772179326,"sku":"NW9780525520986","price":15.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780525520986.jpg?v=1778725828","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/elsey-come-home","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}