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30%OFFElise Juska - The Blessings - 9781455574025 - V9781455574025
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The Blessings

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Description for The Blessings Paperback. In the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine and Jennifer Close's Girls in White Dresses comes a wonderful novel about a tight-knit Irish Catholic clan over the course of twenty years. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
When John Blessing dies and leaves behind two small children, the loss reverberates across his extended family for years to come. His young widow, Lauren, finds solace in her large clan of in-laws, while his brother's wife Kate pursues motherhood even at the expense of her marriage. John's teenage nephew Stephen finds himself involved in an act of petty theft that takes a surprising turn, and nephew Alex, a gifted student, travels to Spain and considers the world beyond his family's Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood. Through departures and arrivals, weddings and reunions, THE BLESSINGS reveals the interior worlds of the members ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781455574025
SKU
V9781455574025
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About Elise Juska
Elise Juska's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Good Housekeeping, The Hudson Review, Harvard Review, and many other journals and magazines. Her story "The Way I Saw the World Then" was published in The Missouri Review and cited by The Best American Short Stories 2010. She is currently the director of the undergraduate Creative Writing program ... Read more

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