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Also by Elise Juska:

Reunion, May 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
If We Had Known, April 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Blessings, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, June 2007
Paperback
Cold Feet, May 2005
Trade Size
The Hazards of Sleeping Alone, September 2004
Paperback
Getting Over Jack Wagner, April 2003
Paperback

THE BLESSINGS
By: Elise Juska

Grand Central Publishing
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
Featuring: Abby; Stephen
ISBN: 1455574031
EAN: 9781455574032
Kindle: B00EXTVSEG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Family Life

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.