Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Essays. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as. In Elizabeth Graver's quietly enchanting first novel, Unravelling, the longings of the young narrator, Aimee Slater, are strikingly vivid and contemporary, yet the story is set in nineteenth-century New England, at the juncture between the region's rural, puritanical past and all the glittering possibilities of its burgeoning industrialization. Her short story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Graver is the author of three other novels: Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling.
Long-listed for the 2013 National Book Awards Long List in Fiction, The End of the Point received rave reviews from The New York Times and Boston Globe. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life.Įlizabeth Graver's 2013 novel, The End of the Point, is set in a Massachusetts seaside summer community from 1942 to 1999 and tells the story of one family and a place over half a century.
Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge-her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way-a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Elizabeth Graver's novel Kantika-“song” in Ladino-follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul.
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