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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One for Sorrow, Two for Joy was selected as a Summer Book Club pick by the Room of Her Own Foundation
September 19 - 21: Elise will be teaching a short story workshop at the Fall Writing Retreat at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine
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
September 2 - October 31: She will be teaching a fiction workshop online for The New School
Read about her new novel-in-progress on Esquire.com
