Elise Juska's third novel, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, was released in June 2007
From The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Clear-eyed and unsentimental, Juska has created a welcome, refreshing novel that upends stereotypes and eschews cliches."
From Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of Prep: "Elise Juska is so good at describing people, places, and moments that you not only picture them, you feel them."
From Marisa Silver, author of No Direction Home: "Juska's passion for language, and for the ways in which it tries, and sometimes fails, to represent who we are, give this lovely book a resonance that crosses not only family lines, but geographical borders, too."
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Elise's short story "The Summer Guest" appears in the August issue of Good Housekeeping
Her story "Northeast Philly Girls" is included in the new anthology Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review
Thursday, July 24: Reading at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, with poet Christian Barter and memoirist Jaed Coffin
September 19 - 21: Teaching at the Fall Writing Retreat at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine
September 2 - October 31: Teaching fiction workshop online for The New School
Read about her new novel-in-progress on Esquire.com
