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Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth Graver’s novel The End of the Point (Harper, 2013) was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award. Her other novels are Awake (Henry Holt, 2004), The Honey Thief (Hyperion, 1999), and Unravelling (Hyperion, 1997). Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She is at work on a novel inspired by her Sephardic grandmother. icon

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B-Sides: Edward P. Jones’s “All Aunt Hagar’s Children”

By Elizabeth Graver

A Jones story can break just about every writing workshop edict in its handling ...

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