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What Remains of Elsie Jane - paperback Wakelyn, Chelsea
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- ISBN
- 9781459750845
- Book Title
- What Remains of Elsie Jane
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Family Life, Biographical
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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"A poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, weird, and heartbreaking window into being bereft and being in love... a striking reminder that there can be beauty in devastation." -- EMILY AUSTIN, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of a woman unravelling in the wake of tragedy. Sam is dead, which means that Elsie Jane has just lost the brilliant, sensitive man she planned to grow old with. The early days of grief are a fog of work and single parenting. Too restless to sleep, Elsie pores over Sam's old love letters, paces her house, and bickers with the ghosts of Sam and her dead parents night after night. As the year unfolds, she develops an obsession with a local murder mystery, attends a series of disastrous internet dates in search of a "replacement soulmate," and solicits a space-time wizard via Craigslist, convinced he will help her forge a path through the cosmos back to Sam. Examining the ceaseless labour of motherhood, the stigma of death by drug poisoning, and the allure of magical thinking in the wake of tragedy, What Remains of Elsie Jane is a heart-splitting reminder that grief is born from the depths of love. A RARE MACHINES BOOK
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Dundurn Press
ISBN-10
1459750845
ISBN-13
9781459750845
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3057257033
Product Key Features
Book Title
What Remains of Elsie Jane
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Family Life, Biographical
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
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Trade
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What Remains of Elsie Jane reads like a side-splitting obituary. A poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, weird, and heartbreaking window into being bereft and being in love. This book is a striking reminder that there can be beauty in devastation., This is Wakelyn's first book, and she demonstrates an astounding talent for combining comedy with tragedy. In this aspect, Wakelyn shares many of Miriam Toews' extraordinary gifts., This novel about death just pulses with life, with a force as compelling as the one that kept me turning the pages. I absolutely adored it., This sense of the novel as TV is exacerbated by Elsie's fast-paced, acutely self-aware speech, rather reminiscent of Gilmore Girls ., I've never read a book which so completely captures the way time bends when you're in the middle of a completely traumatic event, like a sudden death. What Remains of Elsie Jane is tender and funny and sad, but it's also deeply realistic, even as Elsie seems to go off the rails., To read What Remains of Elsie Jane is to encounter a raw, sometimes angry, and always messy grief. Wakelyn captures a woman falling apart and putting herself back together in the dynamic voice of her complicated protagonist. In her multiverse-curious widowhood, Elsie is unrelentingly hopeful without being cheerful, loving without being good., The novel handles the complexities of grief through sarcasm and Elsie's personal thoughts as she attempts to regain control of her life...It's her obsession with her fantasy that helps Elsie to stay afloat., A poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, weird, and heartbreaking window into being bereft and being in love.
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2023
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