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A novel about a woman writing a novel about a woman who writes-Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love is a sexy, earthy, bracingly intelligent examination of the vicissitudes of grief, ambition, aging, information overload, compassion fatigue, and a data-centric understanding of self; the relative merits of giving up or giving in; the seductive myth of progress; and the condition of being a thinking and feeling (gendered, raced) inhabitant of an unthinkable, numbing world.
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"Philosophically exhaustive yet profoundly human, this book sets itself the task of asking the big questions-What am I? What was I? What will I be?-in a style that evokes Lispector and Camus but with the self-referential and weary globalism of the current milieu. A consummately accomplished novel. A worthy treatise on the now."
Kirkus, starred review
"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."
Nylon
"Anna Moschovakis takes the reader straight to the terrifying edge: that moment where one ages out of youthfulness and begins to flutter in the debris of middle living, flattened out by technology, wild-goose chasing one's data. Yet, the deeper we look into Eleanor's unsettledness, the more we see and the more hope we find in her rhizomic wandering. This is a beautiful slow burn of a novel."
Renee Gladman