Audiobook6 hours
What Remains of Elsie Jane
Written by Chelsea Wakelyn
Narrated by Julienne Irons
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
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 labor 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.
Contains mature themes.
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 labor 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.
Contains mature themes.
Author
Chelsea Wakelyn
Chelsea Wakelyn is a writer, musician, and mother to two lovely, eccentric humans. She lives on Vancouver Island.
Related to What Remains of Elsie Jane
Related audiobooks
Fix Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Care for a Human Girl: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5What’s Not Mine: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBellies: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reproduction: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's Not a Cult: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSuch a Pretty Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Applicant Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unseen City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGoddess Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Possessed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCloser to Okay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Idle Hands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deliver Me: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mona at Sea Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Trondheim Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSwanna in Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Half-Life of a Stolen Sister Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Bloom: 'A beautiful tale of resilience' Heat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHestia Strikes a Match: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Cowardly Woman No More Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Friendship Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Strange Children Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Talking Animals: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelf-Portrait with Nothing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How the Boogeyman Became a Poet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Fiction For You
Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hunger Games Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stardust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yellowface: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Parable of the Sower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poisonwood Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of Achilles: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Measure: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tom Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Their Eyes Were Watching God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kindred Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for What Remains of Elsie Jane
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews