{"product_id":"2940169095036","title":"Elsey Come Home: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the widely praised author of \u003ci\u003eParis Was the Place\u003c\/i\u003e amp;mdash; a shattering new novel that bravely delves into the darkest corners of addiction, marriage, and motherhood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, 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 amp;mdash; wife of one of China's most famous artists and a renowned painter herself amp;mdash; with whom Elsey quickly forges a fierce friendship and whose candidness about her pain helps Elsey understand her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Elsey must risk tearing herself and Lukas further apart when she decides she must return to her childhood home amp;mdash; the center of her deepest pain amp;mdash; before she can find her way back to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100407152880,"sku":"2940169095036","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169095036_p0.jpg?v=1763760985","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169095036","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}