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A Quitter's Paradise

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We focused on the lost marmoset as a leading theme from the story, accentuating the strangeness and untethered feeling of being alone in the city.” Cohen, frequent illustrator for the New York Times and The New Yorker, told Lit Hub. “I searched for the right atmosphere—we didn’t want a happy marmoset. We were looking for a certain combination of grief, self-search, and otherness, but also some humor. At first, it was just the marmoset, as an avatar for Eleanor, the main character. It was Evan’s idea to have Eleanor wander through the park, and make the marmoset into also a viewer, akin to the reader. Now both are on a journey away from home, both have an otherness.” Eleanor quits her PhD program in neuroscience; Narisa disappears for good while a teen, after one too many fights with her disapproving parents. Only Eleanor and her mother Rita are left after her father Jing leaves the U.S. and forms a new family in Taipei.

A Quitter’s Paradise | Elysha Chang | 9781638930525 | NetGalley A Quitter’s Paradise | Elysha Chang | 9781638930525 | NetGalley

I am left with amazement and dismay at the family dynamics, especially that created by the parents. I wondered how Eleanor would cope with that history of people leaving and with her mother Rita, who is left alone with the girls in the U.S. when Jing leaves. A masterpiece that wrangles several lifetimes of wisdom, loss and heartbreak into a slim novel you can clutch to your chest, pass on to your sharpest, most mercurial friends and say: read this, feel this!”I always feel nervous about the responsibility attached to it. It’s somebody’s, in many cases, 5, 10 years of solitary work: quiet, secretive to some degree. And in some cases, it’s been painful financially and emotionally. There’s just so much at stake for these writers. I tend to be nervous, anyway, about everything that matters to me. Maybe that’s a good thing. Eleanor Liu is doing just fine. Yes, she’s hiding things from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now conducting unauthorized research on illegitimately procured mice. And, true, her mother is dead, and Eleanor has yet to go through her things. But what else is she supposed to do? What shape can grief take when you didn’t understand the person you’ve lost?

elysha chang

Yes, she’s keeping secrets from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now conducting unauthorized research on illegitimately procured mice. And, true, her mother is dead, and Eleanor has yet to go through her things. But what else is she supposed to do? What shape can grief take when you didn’t understand the person you’ve lost?

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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Elysha Chang’s A Quitter’s Paradise, the first book on Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Zando, forthcoming in June 2023. This debut novel examines the grief of a young woman desperate to detach from the reality of her mother’s death and estrangement of her family. The novel examines what it means to be a family, and how, regardless of time and space, families can remain tied to each other, for better or worse. I enjoyed the two different stories of two generations in this novel and how they impact one another - the story of Rita and Jing from Taipei, who emigrate to the U.S; and the stories of their daughters, Narisa and Eleanor, who grow up in New York. A Quitter’s Paradise is a glorious, pondering, heartbreaking, extremely funny, VERY special book. In Eleanor Lin and her family, Elysha Chang has created captivating characters, who continuously surprised, delighted, and intrigued me—so much so that I didn’t want to leave them. The stories of their lives are at once intimate and universally resonant. It’s truly the perfect inaugural book for SJP Lit and I couldn’t be more honored to be working with the extraordinarily talented Elysha Chang.” What I was trying to express was that I didn’t want to co-opt an author and make them feel that that was my end point, that I just wanted to get my hands on the rights, you know? The experience of reading is so special, it’s so unique. If it came to be that an author felt that I was the right person to pursue the screen rights, that would be a cherry on the sundae. But it wasn’t what I set my eyes on because I felt that it muddied the waters, and it took the purity away from the whole experience and the exercise of convincing an author to let me shepherd this alongside them. But also, that it turns into a kind of monetary thing—not that it necessarily specifically says that, but there’s something unpleasant, slightly, about it for me.



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