Ellery Goes Dark
A Novel
9798998722349
288 pages
Empress Editions Llc
Overview
Midlife reinvention is messy, hilarious, and sometimes led by George Michael.Ellery Allbright is a high-octane New York talk-show host whose polished life shatters when an ecstatic epileptic seizure on live television leaves her with twenty-one facial fractures - and millions of viewers watching the fallout.
Wired shut and unable to speak, Ellery is forced into rehabilitation with Dr. Augustus Wolfe, a stuffed-shirt Harvard neurologist from Maine with impossible cheekbones and no patience for her carefully curated defenses. Their relentless friction is as volatile as it is magnetic.
Between teenage daughters, ghosted lovers, unsympathetic bosses, public humiliation, and the surreal guidance of George Michael through a pharmacological bardo, Ellery must reclaim the voice, body, and life she thought she had lost. Sharp, sexy, and deeply humane, Ellery Goes Dark is a romantic comedy about discovering meaning after the performance of
perfection finally ends.