"REUNION had me hooked from its perfectly tense opening, and kept me enthralled throughout with its masterful storytelling and memorable characters. This is Elise Juska's best book yet." -- Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River

"In this elegantly rendered novel about a long-awaited reunion that doesn't go as planned, Elise Juska deftly and grippingly explores the richness and complexities of longtime friendships, the anxiety of living in a world that feels perpetually on edge, and the possibilities of community and connection that still somehow remain." -- Lynn Steger Strong, author of Flight and Want

"Elise Juska's Reunion is such a wildly vivid snapshot of midlife that you may feel like you're reading your own diary. How wise and deeply humane and tender is this beautifully written story of three old friends who reconnect at a college reunion on the coast of Maine, how laser sharp the dialogue. The subtle knowingness and crystallized moments of connection and longing between mothers and sons, and husbands and wives, and women friends will stop you in your tracks." -- Susan Conley, author of Landslide

"In Elise Juska's insightful and elegant new novel, three college friends return to the campus they left decades before and are forced to face the hard truth of how their lives have turned out. A beautifully written and skillfully woven tale of what-ifs and what-might-have-beens-I loved it." -- Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year

"A deftly written page-turner that kept me up way beyond my bedtime for several days to find out what would happen to Juska's characters. So relatably human and touching, this novel had me riveted until the very last sentence." -- Caitlin Shetterly, author of Pete and Alice in Maine

"A vivid, engrossing read. . . . The idyllic beauty of a Maine college campus is the perfect backdrop for Juska's characters to reconnect with each other and with who they were in another era, to attempt to distance themselves from the secrets and struggles of the lives they've left behind, and to feel both the comfort and the pain of nostalgia." -- Katie Runde, author of The Shore

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

Praise for The Blessings: "There's no shortage of novels about the quirks and tragedies of large families, but The Blessings is a uniquely poignant, prismatic look at an Irish-Catholic clan as it rallies after losing one of its own." -- Entertainment Weekly

"A bighearted novel. . . . Juska's moving, multifaceted portrait of the Blessing family gleams like a jewel." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"In the tradition of Elizabeth Berg's and Alice McDermott's work, The Blessings is a knowing portrait of a sprawling Irish-American family in Philly across the last thirty years, in all their shared strength and separate weaknesses. Elise Juska is deft and tender, letting us get close to her characters in their most vulnerable moments. The ties that bind are never simple, and often painful, but as one daughter acknowledges, 'these are the hidden intimacies, the private exchanges, on which she builds her life.'" -- Stewart O'Nan

"Several generations of the Blessings, a Philadelphia-based, Irish-American family, come beautifully to life in a deceptively simple tale that examines the foibles, disappointments and passions that tie family members together. . . The author brings a depth of understanding to the human condition. . . . the reader leaves feeling lucky to have spent some time in their presence."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Juska's compelling narrative tackles complex issues about society's judgment of and responsibility for others."
-- Shelf Awareness

Praise for If We Had Known: "A tender, whip-smart meditation on the origins and aftermath of tragedy. Here Juska asks us an important and quietly devastating question: In what ways are we responsible to and for each other?"
-- Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award Finalist Her Body and Other Parties

"What a gripping and wise book this is."
-- Robin Black, author of Life Drawing