"Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases it apart. The question of what really happened to Joy kept me up half the night." —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of The Dutch House

"Treadway combines intense suspense with a smart take on 21st-century adolescence, parenting and justice."

— People Magazine

"Thoughtful mystery... nuanced, probing, and honest." -- Kirkus Reviews

LACY EYE

"Deftly plotted psychological thriller… Treadway paints a devastating portrait of a family torn apart from both the outside and within."
-- Publishers Weekly

"An excellent exploration of the agony that often accompanies parenthood." —Kirkus Review

"An intricately plotted psychological thriller." —The Chicago Tribune

"Great characters, a smart plot, full of heart and feeling." — The London Sunday Mirror

"Ominous... intrigue behind every glance and unfinished sentence." —Booklist

PLEASE COME BACK TO ME

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

"Each of the stories exposes a darker side of American family life, with hidden fault lines of contradiction lurking in the human soul." —The Rumpus

"Treadway's prose is clear and searingly direct. She tells her stories without flash or florid embellishments. But the little insights and illuminating details are all the more vivid in their spare dryness." —The Boston Globe

AND GIVE YOU PEACE

Booklist's Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year

"A stunning exploration of a family's devastating loss." — Booklist

"I know of few authors who can write with the intelligence, sensitivity, and grace of Jessica Treadway. I know of none who can write with such courage. And Give You Peace teaches us how—and why—to look at what we're afraid to see. We emerge redeemed." —Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Confession Club and I'll Be Seeing You: a Memoir

ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE

John C. Zacharis First Book Award

"Jessica Treadway's fiction takes us into the terrifying and mystifying truths of family life. This is the real thing: how it can go wrong, how it can be redeemed. There's no sentimentality here, just honesty, faith, and the glorious transformations of literary art."

—Christopher Tilghman, author of In a Father's Place

Jessica Treadway

Contact information

Represented by Kimberly Witherspoon, Inkwell Management
521 Fifth Ave.
New York, N.Y.

212-922-3500

Please feel free to contact Jessica directly at jessicatreadway@comcast.net.