Eleanor lives in Brooklyn, and teaches literature and sleeps with Abraham, and something has happened to her, but maybe we don't know what exactly. Her laptop is stolen, and Eleanor travels upstate, to Albany, to a commune, to Ethiopia. Meanwhile, interspersed, a first-person narrator develops a relationship with a literary critic with whom she shares her novel-in-progress, which is the Eleanor story. I totally love this book - it's funny and insightful and weird, and it's about so many things: technology, relationships and desire, getting older, grief, art and literature and writing, wandering.
— BonnieA missing laptop, a petulant critic, a sojourn in communal living--Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love is a bracingly intelligent examination of grief, autonomy, aging, desire, information overload, and the condition of being a thinking and feeling inhabitant of an often unthinkable, numbing world. Anna Moschovakis's debut novel bristles with honesty, humor, and the hungers that propel us to revise and again revise our lives.