Wellness

Jack is a penniless artist creating art that few have access to. Elizabeth is a runaway from an fabulously wealthy family, from which she recoils. Their windows are separated only by a narrow alley. For weeks and months they observe each other, admiring and thinking that the person in the opposite window will never be interested in who is watching them now. Both have decided to start with a clean slate in Chicago and are now trying to fit into a world that feels foreign to them. Both are endlessly lonely and dream of meeting a soulmate, unaware that the soulmate resides in the neighboring house. Twenty years later, Jack and Elizabeth are a respectable couple experiencing a midlife crisis. But they remain the same lost and lonely dreamers as in their youth, still fighting with the demons they once wanted to escape from. Trying to understand themselves, each begins a deep excavation of their own soul, risking losing the best thing they have — each other. A piercing and witty novel about marriage and the connections that hold people together. Analyzing the absurdities of modern society, "Wellness" ironically and touchingly reinterprets the classic love story. What do people tell about themselves, about their feelings, about their relationships? It is both very funny and almost heartbreaking, and definitely — truly clever and profound.