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By Elise Juska

Read by Therese Plummer

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On Sale
May 6, 2014
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781478953371

“Bursting with wise observations.” — J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Engagements and Maine

 “Gleams like a jewel.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer

 “Stunning. . . Unique and unforgettable.” — Glamour

 Hailed as one of the best books of 2014 by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Elise Juska’s The Blessings is a moving novel about a tight-knit Irish Catholic clan over the course of twenty years.

The Blessings rally around one another in times of celebration and those of sorrow, coming together for departures and arrivals, while its members harbor private struggles and moments of personal joy. College student Abby ponders homesickness in her first semester away from her Philadelphia home, while her cousin Stephen commits a petty act of violence that takes a surprising turn, and their aunt Lauren faces a crisis in her storybook marriage she could never have foreseen. Through the lens of one unforgettable family, this beautifully moving novel explores how our families define us and how we shape them in return.

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  • "Elise Juska is so good at describing people, places, and moments that you not only picture them, you feel them."
    Curtis Sittenfeld

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  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
  3. Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD

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Elise Juska

About the Author

Elise Juska‘s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Good Housekeeping, The Hudson Review, and many other publications. She is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction from Ploughshares and her work has been cited in The Best American Short Stories. She lives in Philadelphia, where she is the director of the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of the Arts.

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