Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver

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Bibliographic Details

• Artist: Elizabeth Graver
• Title: Unravelling
• Publisher: ‎A Harvest Book, Harcourt Brace and Company; First Harvest Edition (August 12, 1999)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 302 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0156006103
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0156006101
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.0  pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 8.25 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Cover Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

From a small, bogside cabin in rural New England, 38-year-old Aimee Slater unravels the story of her life, attempting to make sense of the tangled thread that leads from her mother's house-a short, unbridgeable distance away-to the world she now inhabits.

It is soon after the Civil War; Aimee lives alone, but is graced with visits from two friends, a crippled man and a troubled eleven-year-old girl. She is perpetually caught between the sensual world she so desires and the divine retribution passed down to her by her mother's scorn. How Aimee ultimately creates a life for herself and bridges that distance makes for a moving story of love and loss.

Told in a voice of spare New England lyricism, Unravelling is a remarkably haunting account of the power of redemption.

About the Author:

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. 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. 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. 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.

Elizabeth 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. 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.

Graver is the author of three other novels: Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her short story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Essays.

For more information: elizabethgraver.com