What Remains of Elsie Jane (eBook)

Chelsea Wakelyn (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
264 Seiten
Dundurn Press (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5086-9 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;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."e; - EMILY AUSTIN, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be DeadA 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 "e;replacement soulmate,"e; 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: ADHD • Anxiety • autofiction • bad mother • Bereavement • complicated cumulative grief • coping with • cosmic love • dark humour • Dating after loss • Depression • Epistolary • Fantasy • father’s death • Funny • Ghosts • grief and loss • Heartbreaking • husband death • literary fiction • loss of spouse • Magical Thinking • Motherhood • mother’s death • Obsession • overdose death • parenting • parent loss • Quantum jumping • Soul mate • tragic
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-5086-1 / 1459750861
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-5086-9 / 9781459750869