A Quitter's Paradise: A Novel
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Zando Audio 2023
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In A Quitter's Paradise, the darkly humorous debut by bold, new voice Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother's death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own. Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she's hiding things from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now conducting unauthorized research on illegitimately procured mice. And, true, her mother is dead, and Eleanor has yet to go through her things. But what else is she supposed to do? What shape can grief take when you didn't understand the person you've lost? Resisting at every turn, Eleanor tumbles blindly down a path that will force her to confront her present. After a series of incidents—and some questionable choices—it becomes clear that no matter how hard Eleanor tries, she will never be able to escape her grief, or her family, despite her wildest attempts. But will she be brave enough to withstand the reckoning she's hurtling toward? At once disarmingly provocative and compulsively readable, A Quitter's Paradise interweaves Eleanor's story with her parents' in an unexpectedly funny study of the beauty and contradictions of family bonds and self-knowledge, exploring the ways we unwittingly guard the secrets of our loved ones, even from ourselves.
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Street Date:
06/06/2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781666634495
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Elysha Chang. (2023). A Quitter's Paradise: A Novel. Unabridged Zando Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Elysha Chang. 2023. A Quitter's Paradise: A Novel. Zando Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Elysha Chang, A Quitter's Paradise: A Novel. Zando Audio, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Elysha Chang. A Quitter's Paradise: A Novel. Unabridged Zando Audio, 2023.
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