"[Along with] handsome and sensitive portraits...Van Sise identifies lessons for our unsettled time. Invited to Life is a compelling and memorable portrait that testifies to the strength and endurance of the human spirit." -- Maron L. Waxman, Jewish Book Council
"A truly powerful collection of images, stories, allegories and lives...Van Sise is writing with light, as if drawn by Picasso himself.
It is extremely difficult to make this look simple. The light transforms from a simple instrument and becomes representative of amusement and laughter, it is hope in the darkness, it is sunlight from an invisible window that warms and comforts. This is the stuff that moves mountains, the small action that ripples across millennia." --Cary Benbow, F-Stop Magazine
"Hefty, beautifully produced... [Van Sise] has done his job beautifully. He has been true to his intention: to show existence ongoing, life being lived." --Michael R. Caplan, White Rose Magazine
"Thoughtful, kind and insightful, [Invited to Life] is, at different points, hilarious, breathtaking, and gut-wrenching. It's always worth your attention." -- Sara Beth Berman, Hey Alma
"Poignant and exquisite." -- Karen Lehrman Bloch, Jewish Journal