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Elsey Come Home

by Susan Conley · 2019

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Elsey's role as painter, mother and wife have lead her to descend into desperate unhappiness. Her husband Lukas urges her to find herself in a weeklong mountain retreat. There she meets a group of men and women who will forever alter the way she understands herself.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiswomen’s fictionwomen’s fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
artistsartistsMore like thisLess of thismother daughtermother daughterMore like thisLess of thisrelationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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