Elsey Come Home

"Probing questions about how to balance motherhood, a career, marriage, and a drinking problem resonate throughout Conley's excellent novel. . . . [Elsey Come Home is] an honest and astute depiction of the human psyche."--Publishers Weekly (starred)

"Conley's slim novel illustrates the power of storytelling as a process for healing. What entices and endures here is the voice: dreamy, meditative, hypnotic, and very real."--Kirkus

"Elsey Come Home is a delicious read, vivid and delicately wrought, and so very prescient with regard to the mother-child bond that it's almost eerie. I kept finding myself thinking, how did she know? and how did she find the words? An engrossing, moving meditation on family, loss, creativity, secrets, culture, and the bonds that hold our lives together against the odds."--Carolina De Robertis, author of The Gods of Tango

"I loved Elsey Come Home. The exotic setting, the characters Elsey meets along the way--her husband, her little girls, her dilemma. And the writing, spare and lovely. What more can I say--perfect."--Judy Blume