Sedating Elaine is a notable accomplishment.' somewhat distasteful mission and overall ethos that makes her amusing, and which provides ample room for Winter to display her skill with humor, which she does often and with good reason.Engaging. Erin Somers, The New York Times 'Humorous, emotive, perplexing. You find yourself rooting for the drugging to go off without a hitch.'

There are depths here it is not all froth. The prose, like Frances, is sprightly and dry.

'In Dawn Winter's knockout debut, Sedating Elaine, Frances owes money to a drug dealer and, with no way of getting it, contrives to have her obnoxiously upbeat, generationally wealthy girlfriend, Elaine, move in with her so she can shake her down for money. Frances fears she may never escape the relationship, so, given no choice, she makes the obvious decision: She will sedate Elaine.Ī story as enthusiastically madcap and funny as it is smart and emotionally surprising, Sedating Elaine introduces a roster of unforgettable characters and an indelible, wildly exciting new voice in fiction. Unfortunately, this seemingly romantic overture makes Elaine even more sex-crazed and maniacal with love. Now, faced with mounting pressure from her drug dealer, Dom (and his goon, Betty), Frances comes up with a terrible idea: She asks Elaine to move in with her for real.

But somehow (it involved a steady stream of beer and weed, as things often did with Frances) Elaine ended up in Frances’s bed and never left. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne. An intriguingly headstrong yet vulnerable character with an astonishing talent for making the worst possible life-decisions.' -Sarah Haywood, best-selling author of The Cactusįrances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. 'A brilliantly quirky, surreally funny story.

An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman’s harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make soup, and finally get some peace and quiet.

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