From Ahab Books (Glencoe, CA, U.S.A.) AbeBooks Seller Since JSeller Rating. Her short fiction has been published in Expat Magazine.Įlizabeth’s new novel, Kantika, has its seeds in interviews she did with her grandmother-Sylvie’s great-grandmother-when she was herself a Wesleyan undergraduate. ISBN 10: 0786862815 / ISBN 13: 9780786862818. Sylvie Graver Pingeon, Elizabeth Graver’s daughter, is a sophomore at Wesleyan University, where she studies English and Creative Writing and is on the staff of the literary journals The Lavender and ADlit. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Prize Stories, the O. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. 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 fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 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.Įxploring identity, place and exile, Kantikaalso reveals how the female body-in work, art and love-serves as a site of both suffering and joy. 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.

Join Elizabeth Graver and her daughter, Wesleyan sophmore Sylvie Graver Pingeon, to celebrate the release of her new novel Kantika.Ī dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.Ī kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, 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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