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Elsewhere is a Place in Central Park (Large Print Edition)
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $31.99
Publisher: Ecs
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From Harrison Rose Tate, ECS Book of the Year author of Heavy Metal Is a Sin, comes a sweeping, psychologically intimate novel based on a true story. Spanning decades and continents, it traces one woman's journey across class divides, international borders, and the unexpected events that forge one's identity.
In 1960s Copenhagen, a working-class house painter wins the Danish national lottery. It is enough money to move his family out of gritty Vesterbro and into a grand brownstone in the affluent sterbro neighborhood, not enough to be set for life. He continues working at his blue-collar job to make ends meet. He is content.
For his daughter Sofie, the sudden shift creates an indelible rift: she is at once too working-class for her wealthy new peers and increasingly alienated from the neighborhood friends she left behind.
It is the first of many thresholds she will cross.
Determined to carve out her own trajectory, Sofie propels herself into Denmark's elite academic circles, eventually marrying into one of the country's most influential families. Suddenly, her world expands into embassy galas, diplomatic circles, luxury hotels, and a life that fluidly flows between Copenhagen and Madrid.
Yet inside these gilded rooms and penthouse apartments, Sofie must navigate rigid unwritten codes, marital isolation, and the quiet friction of an inherited status she never requested. As she builds a career, steps into motherhood, and confronts betrayal, Sofie learns that upward mobility often demands sacrifice: the world left behind. For her, it is a world that never had a chance to take shape.
Spanning decades, Elsewhere Is a Place in Central Park is a masterfully crafted portrait of female autonomy, class alienation, and the enduring search for home.
Original, exceptional, and an fascinating read from cover to cover, Tate has raised her entertaining and thought-provoking novel to an impressive level of literary excellence. While an especially and unreservedly recommended pick for community and college/university library Contemporary American Literary Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that the hardcover edition of 'Elsewhere Is a Place in Central Park' from ECS Publishing is also available in a paperback book format. - Midwest Book Review
A plainly stated, unsensationalist story that will grow inside you until you realise you've been profoundly moved... something bewitching about the way that Elsewhere is a Place in Central Park grows inside you as a reader. The choice of ending, too, is perfect...incredibly satisfying and rare. - James Kinsley, Reedsy Discovery
Featured in the May 2026 issue of Library Bookwatch
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