Wreck and Order

Name: Wreck and Order
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Hannah Tennant-Moore
ISBN: 9781511371001

Author: Hannah Tennant-Moore

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/09/2016

Categories: Fiction, Women, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent worldPurposefully 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.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.Whole-hearted, fiercely honest and inexorably human, Wreck and Order is a stirring debut novel that, in mirroring one young woman's dizzying quest for answers, illuminates the important questions that drive us all.

About Hannah Tennant-Moore

Hannah Tennant-Moore’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, n+1, Tin House, and the Los Angeles Review of Books and has twice been included in The Best Buddhist Writing. She lives in Upstate New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cian

Back when Lena Dunham's HBO series was a hot commodity, an acquisitions editor at Random House thought that WRECK AND ORDER would resonate with all those young women who never missed an episode. A twenty-something female exploring her sexuality, in an endless pursuit of the perfect orgasm? The makin......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I received this book for free through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers. I can see why many people abandoned this book. The beginning is quite aimless and boring. For me, it wasn't until Elsie went to Sri Lanka for the second time that it got interesting. I don't quite know what to make of this book. I......more

Goodreads review by Lark

Darn! The beginning was so, so fearless, so promising, a setup for a wrenching story of self-destruction and annihilation and nihilistic despair, the kind of story where bad choices are the only choices available to a character you care about, and where you're willing to follow her all the way to th......more