Wreck and Order: A Novel

Wreck and Order: A Novel

<b><b>Nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize<br>Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize<br><br>A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent world</b></b><br><br>Purposefully aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels lost. She's in a tumultuous relationship, is stuck in a dead-end job, and has a relentless, sharp intelligence that’s at odds with her many bad decisions. When her initial attempts to improve her life go awry, Elsie decides that a dramatic change is the only solution.<br><br> While traveling through Paris and Sri Lanka, Elsie meets people who challenge and provoke her towards the change she is seeking, but ultimately she must still come face-to-face with herself.<br><br>Whole-hearted, fiercely honest and inexorably human, <i>Wreck and Order</i> is a stirring debut novel that, in mirroring one young woman's dizzying quest for answers, illuminates the important questions that drive us all.