Intensely imagined, right-valued, memorable.' In a Chicago Tribune review of The Honey Thief, John Gregory Brown wrote, 'One of our finest writers on the grand drama of simply growing up. In a review of Unravelling in The New York Times Book Review, Benjamin DeMott wrote, 'Exceptional. Her short story collection, Have You Seen Me, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. In Awake, Graver uses the genetic disease Xeroderma Pigmentosum to explore a mother's relationships with her sons, her husband and, eventually, her lover the novel is set at a camp for children with this rare disease. 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. Elizabeth Gravers 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. The Honey Thief, a contemporary novel, explores a mother/daughter relationship, as well as the fall-out of living with-and losing-a mentally ill father. One novel, Unravelling, is set in 19th-century America in the Lowell Textile Mills and tells the story of a fiercely independent young woman and the life she eventually fashions for herself. Graver writes character-driven psychological fiction set in a wide variety of times and places, as well as more experimental short fiction, and non-fiction essays on a variety of subjects. Married to civil writers lawyer James Pingeon, Graver is the mother of two young daughters. A recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and The National Endowment for the Arts, she has been a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston College since 1993. She also did graduate work at Cornell University. Hyperion Books, 22. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. Graver was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver