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One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
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One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

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For two quietly unhappy years, linguist Claire Gallagher has been living deep in the New Hampshire woods, enduring a polite but strained marriage to a highly respected scientist. Once a determined overachiever and academic star in her own right, she now spends her days avoiding her stalled dissertation and creating EZ crossword puzzles. But for all Claire's knowledge of words and their meanings, the meaning in her own life eludes her. One bleak morning in winter, she announces that she's leaving.

By nightfall, at the urging of her younger sister Noelle, Claire finds herself heading to the last place she thought she would ever go: Ireland -- the birthplace of her abrasive, chronically ill mother and the country Noelle, a college dropout, now calls home. In a small town on the Irish coast, Claire's struggle to move ahead with her life takes her deep into the puzzles of her past -- in a world in which there are no simple answers, and the only questions that matter are those of the heart.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPocket Books
Release dateJun 5, 2007
ISBN9781416561781
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
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Elise Juska

Elise Juska's short stories have appeared in many magazines, including The Hudson Review, Harvard Review, Salmagundi, Black Warrior Review, Calyx, and The Seattle Review. She teaches fiction writing at The New School in New York City and The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her first novel, Getting Over Jack Wagner, is available from Downtown Press. Visit the author's website: www.elisejuska.com.

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    Nice to read a novel in which not everything is all tied up with a ribbon at the end of it, and everyone has found happiness.Claire is having trouble in her new marriage to Bob.After 2 years of life in barren New Hampshire she leaves him and visits her sister in Ireland.Much of the story is about Claire and her sister's life told in flashbacks.Nicely written, sad and sweet at the same time.

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