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Wellness: A novel

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart. "A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time—it's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.” —NPR When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer- youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; First Edition (September 19, 2023)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 624 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593536118


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 17


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.43 x 1.47 x 9.52 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #35,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #443 in Fiction Satire #1,069 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #3,093 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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    • Masterpiece
I’m gobsmacked, and have remained so from page one to the last word. An epic, sweeping, transformative, colossal (adverbs and adjectives are just not enough!) door-stopper of a book, a windswept and fiery, burning satire of a 1990s marriage between a modern couple in Chicago, Jack and Elizabeth. There’s a preoccupation with eternal love, health and well-being, the potent obsession with fitness and strength. How past years’ discarded identities generate the self of today, afraid or unafraid of tomorrow. Jack is a photographer, but his pictures arise from the chemicals and fixatives in the darkroom, not from the camera. Elizabeth is a scientist who peddles placebos to rejuvenate passion. WELLNESS spans twenty years forward, but reaches back, to their childhoods, shifting back and forth in time. Or should I say Time, since Time is essential here, it subverts the narrative and liquidates expectations. It’s about everything, sort of like INFINITE JEST is about everything, and it’s a parabola, like GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is a parabola, but it’s neither the former or latter. The prose is gracefully placed on the page, despite the legion of info (critics would say info-dumping) that the text provides. Hill straddles the line between saying and pontificating, which may cause some readers to recoil. Hill has created his own radical, non-starry-eyed romance, a 90s mosaic of Gen X ideology, as Jack and Elizabeth assemble and inhabit their identities via several and ongoing selves throughout the years, to someday evolve or diminish into what they are now. The stakes, at first, seem fairly mellow. I mean, the worst that I thought could happen is a break-up. Hooooold on, about those stakes. Hill drove them hard through my heart. It’s heavy, at times I felt my throat closing up. This isn’t a book I could read non-stop, I had to take breaks to release the tension, otherwise I would explode! It's also about perception and paradox, connections and loneliness, greed and loss, manipulation and madness. The narrative winds through a buffet of subjects, and love is the polestar, and the threat. Love at first sight is endorsed and dismantled, but never abandoned. There’s so much breadth, from artists to investors, groupthink to prairie fires, children to ancestors, “forever homes,” the World Wide Web, health, sickness, and cures, social media, absence--and the faith in metaphysics, that our souls can travel at night. Paradox: “…that was a pre-globalized world, a pre-9/11 world, a pre-housing bubble world…when they all sort of understood implicitly that however much they resented and resisted the mass economy, they would also have little trouble eventually finding a job and livelihood within it.” Thematically rich in artful contradictions, as a new friend earnestly says to Elizabeth: “He practices the art of nothingness, while you practice the science of nothingness. You’re both obsessed with it: nothingness, emptiness, blankness, absence. Don’t you find that really meaningful?” And this touched my heart, a poignant guidance from the scientist that mentored Elizabeth: “Believe what you believe…but believe gently. Believe compassionately. Believe with curiosity. Believe with humility. And don’t trust the arrogance of certainty.” This book is so deep, vast, mind-bending, and provocative, I just can’t do it justice. It’s written for all of us, all the Time, wherever you are, visible and manifest. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2023 by switterbug/Betsey Van Horn
    • Mostly great
If you are around 45-55 and married, this is a helluva read. It will likely tap into all your own concerns and neuroses in the best way. A very empathetic, and real, look into both the husband and wife characters. The first 2/3 are amazing, alas the end is only ok. Very easy to read and get drawn into ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025 by G Reader
    • if you're trying to decide if this book is for you or not...
I was so excited to get my hands on this book; it seems to have all the themes that speak to me. As a fellow Gen X'er, straight, married with child, educated, and moderately if not highly neurotic, this book seemed to be written for a demographic like me. And indeed, by the second page I had declared that I was in love with the story and the writing. Like Jack and Elizabeth's courtship, the book starts on a high note. Nathan Hill's writing is smart, witty, and engaging. I made it halfway through the book without much difficulty, even though I was initially kind of daunted by the length. It was around page 300 that I found myself losing steam, not unlike Jack and Elizabeth's marriage. Picking up the book each day was no longer a priority for me...the story had started to bog down with long chapters on parenting, the placebo effect, prairie fires, Facebook algorithms...I normally love reading about parenting, and I can so relate to Elizabeth's neuroses parenting in the 2000's, but that long drawn-out chapter on her stress feeding her son had my eyes criss crossing...Hill has clearly done his research and he has an extensive bibliography at the end of the book to show for it. The intervening chapters are basically academic journal articles and mini-lectures weaved into the story. If you love academic and intellectual discussions and diverse and detailed tangents you may relish this, but if you just want to read a straightforward story then you will likely find this tedious. The irony is that while I feel I am the perfect demographic for this book, I am also part of a demographic that doesn't have the bandwidth to appreciate and enjoy this book. I can objectively say that Wellness is quite the ambitious masterpiece - Nathan Hill is clearly brilliant. Unfortunately, I am exhausted and burnt out, from decades of work, childcare, parent care...from technology and the polarization found on social media...from all the things that this book satirizes. As much as I want to really reflect on and dissect what I have just read, I find the book too unwieldy to do so. By page 400 I just wanted to be done, but I had come too far to DNF (abandon it). There is a mild payoff in the penultimate chapters, when we see the traumas that took place in Jack's and Elizabeth's youth that had shaped the people they became. It was just a long wait for that payoff. By the time I was done I was crying in my head "Get me something fast and easy to read next!" (But one of these days, I would like to sit down and take some time to think more about the book.) ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024 by booksandbliss

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