It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office-but not Eleanor-that he's on vacation. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens.
She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. But today, she will tackle the little things. With straight-ahead, clear-eyed Joe at her side, Eleanor has slipped into the Helpless Traveler role.Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of the Year, one of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books, one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016, one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, a Must-Read Book of 2016 by PopSugar, one of EW's 20 Best Books of 2016, one of Glamour's Top Ten Books of the Year, and one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best 100 Fiction Books of 2016"Ī brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.Įleanor knows she's a mess. She divides humanity into Competent Travelers or Helpless Travelers. The pediatrician observes that sometimes frequent tummy aches equal emotional upsets, and Timby spills the beans that he is being bullied by a girl at school.Įleanor’s myopia about her 8-year-old son and his gender identity - he likes to wear make-up - extends to her husband. Feeling skeptical, Eleanor picks up Timby at Galer Street School and delivers him to the doctor.
Her tutorial with the affable poet is cut short by a call from Timby’s private school that her son is sick.
Ever-earnest Eleanor regularly meets with a poet at a coffee shop to parse poems she has memorized beforehand thus, the annotated poem: Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour.” And she really does intend to pay more attention to her son, Timby, be more intimate with her husband, Joe, and dress “in proper clothes, and change into yoga clothes only for yoga, which today I will actually attend,” as she states in her “Today will be different” mantra.
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