a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and If We Had Known. Juska’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The
Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, Electric
Literature, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize
from Ploughshares, and her short fiction has been cited by The Best American Short
Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies. [The Page 69 Test: Reunion; My Book, The Movie: Reunion]
At Tertulia Juska tagged her favorite fiction set in Maine. One title on the list:
Read about another entry on the list.Landslide by Susan Conley
When her husband is hospitalized after a fishing accident, Jill Archer is faced with parenting her two teenage sons—“the wolves”—alone on a small, rugged island in Penobscot Bay. The dynamics in the family—the strain of motherhood, marriage, financial instability—are beautifully rendered and, like life in a struggling fishing village, unsentimentally real.
--Marshal Zeringue
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