Who knows what little surprises I left growing inside there for you, which codes I set running? Breast cancer? Alzheimer’s? You’ll just have to wait and see.” You grew inside me, your teeth and your tongue and your cervix are all made from my cells, my genes. The two of us are linked forever, you see-same blood in my veins that’s running through yours.

You wouldn’t understand, of course but the bond between a mother and child it’s. Although the mother’s dialogue has acid wit, her remarks are deliberately barbed and intended to cause the maximum harm. The story of how Eleanor got her scars isn’t explicated at first, but through her conversations with her horrible mother, it becomes clear that Eleanor has been damaged severely by her mother. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out.

“There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. Lest Eleanor seem like a socially backward caricature, the book makes it clear she is lonely and seeks love: She has a vicious mother, an awful back story, and a wildly entertaining disregard for social norms. When she catches her coworkers making fun of her, she has no emotional response except a chuckle at one of the jokes made at her expense. She makes it her mission to change herself in order to attract the singer’s interest, although he has no idea who she is.Įleanor is a very funny character with many quirks, a reclusive office worker with no interest in people except as things to observe. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is the story of Eleanor Oliphant, a scarred (in both the literal and figurative sense) awkward outcast who falls in love with a singer during a ill-begotten quasi-date with another man. The only way to survive is to open your heart.I haven’t loved a book this much from the get-go since The Night Circus. Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Print Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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