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Decisively aimless, dangerously self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels stuck. She has a tumultuous romance with an abusive boyfriend, a dead-end job at a magazine, and a well-defined intelligence that is at probabilities with the bad decisions she's making. When her first attempts to improve her life go awry, Elsie decides a dramatic change is the only path to repair things - to in some way make more of herself, to discover a new way to reside in. Fortunate enough to have a father who will economically support her capricious wandering, Elsie hits out for trip on her twenty-first birthday. She actually is an autodidact who prefers the education of travel to college, which is hoping to build up experiences, create connections, and find a means out of the suffering she's developed with. From a dingy club in seaside California to a cramped apartment in a brownstone in Brooklyn, to a poverty-stricken town and a monastery in Sri Lanka, Elsie matches men and women who test her to varying diplomas - they treat her badly, and she treats them badly in return; these are selfless and generous toward her, and she struggles to reciprocate their kindnesses; these are exasperated by her neediness, but she can't figure out how never to need them.
