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Elsey come home

When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling for Lukas, the tall, Danish MC at a warehouse rave in downtown Beijing. Now, with two you...

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Main Author: Conley, Susan, 1967- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Women painters > Fiction.
Married people > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Expatriate artists > China > Fiction.
China > Fiction.
Family life > Juvenile fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Summary:When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling 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 wife, Elsey fills her days worrying, drinking, and descending into desperate unhappiness. At the retreat she meets men and women who will forever alter the way she understands herself. -- adapted from jacket.
Physical Description:239 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:9780525520986
0525520988
Author Notes:SUSAN CONLEY is the author of the novel Paris Was the Place and The Foremost Good Fortune , a book that won the Maine Literary Award for memoir. Born and raised in Maine, her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine , The Paris Review , and Ploughshares . She has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Maine Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. She spent three years in Beijing with her husband and two sons before moving back to Portland, Maine, where she currently lives. She teaches in the Stonecoast Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine.

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