Timby fakes an illness at school and Eleanor is called to pick him up. Besides her poetry teacher named Alonzo, she likes few people in Seattle and expects to move back to New York City after their ten years on the West Coast is up. Eleanor is meant to be writing a memoir, but has found that her mind has slowed after having a child and she employs a poetry teacher to help her memorize and discuss poetry in emulation of her late mother, a stage actress. She and her husband Joe have lived in Seattle, where Joe is a celebrity hand surgeon for the Seahawks, for nearly ten years with their son Timby and dog Yo-Yo. Her present has thus far been a combination of social faux pas and anxiety. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.Įleanor Flood decides one day that she will be a better person, more present, and kind to others.
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