Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

This "e;brilliant, inventive, funny"e; debut novel from an award-winning poet explores the contemporary anxieties of disconnection with "e;sharp, keen insights"e; (James Hannaham, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author). This is a novel about a novelist named Eleanor, whose laptop, containing an enigmatic document, is stolen from a coffee shop. But it is also a novel about the unnamed novelist writing Eleanor's story, and whose relationship with a brilliant, melancholic critic is getting decidedly complicated. As Eleanor attempts to track the laptop thief from New York to Addis Ababa to the Rimbaud Museum in Harar, "e;the author's and Eleanor's stories intertwine like strands of a double helix"e; in this "e;philosophically exhaustive yet profoundly human"e; adventure (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In her bracingly intellectual debut novel, the James Laughlin Award-winning poet Anna Moschovakis offers "e;a brilliant, visceral, sensual examination of the condition of being a woman, and the inherent struggles related to identity and authority that exist for all of us"e; (Nylon).