Elizabeth Graver's Books
Jul.17.2012
For the Porter family, summers at Ashaunt Point – a mile and a half long finger of land on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts – have anchored life, providing sanctuary for generations. But in 1942, everything abruptly changes when the U.S. Army sets up a base on the Point. The two older girls – teenagers Dossie and Helen – run wild. Their Scottish nanny, Bea, falls in...
Apr.07.2004
A mother seeks freedom for her young son—and rediscovers her own need for it in the process—in this powerful novel about family, identity, and love.
Once a painter, a traveler, a lover of light, Anna Simon has been living in the dark ever since she gave birth to Max, a child with a rare genetic disease for whom even an hour in sunlight could prove fatal. For years, Anna has home...
Sep.28.2000
Elizabeth Graver's first novel, Unravelling, was hailed on publication as "exceptional" (The New York Times Book Review), "a pleasure" (The New Yorker), and "exquisitely poignant and sensual" (The Boston Globe). Now, in her second novel, she proves herself to be a major voice in American fiction. The summer that eleven-year-old Eva is caught...
Aug.12.1999
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...
“Intense, lyrical . . . Elizabeth Graver’s beautifully fluted prose–slipping fluidly between past and present, and as sensitive to the nuance of thought and feeling as it is to place and landscape–makes each word a joy to read."”
—The Times of London
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Graver's new novel is titled The End of the Point (Harper, 2013). She is the author of three previous novels: Awake (Henry Holt, 2004), The Honey Thief (Henry Holt, 1999), and Unravelling (Hyperion, 1997). Her short story collection, Have You Seen...
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Causes Elizabeth Graver Supports
Planned Parenthood, Save A Dog, Massachusetts Audubon Society, NOW
Elizabeth’s Favorite Books
Housekeeping and Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Canada, by Richard Ford
The Flight of Gemma Hardy, by Margot Livesey
The Mill on the...