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The Author's Corner With Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth
Graver will read from her
fourth novel The End of the Point
at 7:30p.m.
on Thursday,
 April 24, 2014.



The End of the Point was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction  and
selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.



A place
out of time, Ashaunt Point—a tiny finger of land jutting into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts—has
provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who
spend summers along its remote, rocky shore. But in 1942, the U.S. Army
arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change. As the decades pass, Helen and
then her son Charlie return to the Point, seeking refuge from the chaos of
rapidly changing times. But Ashaunt is not entirely removed from events
unfolding beyond its borders. Neither Charlie nor his mother can escape the
long shadow of history—Vietnam, the bitterly disputed real estate development
of the Point, economic misfortune, illness, and tragedy.

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With subtlety and grace, Elizabeth Graver illuminates the powerful legacy of
family and place, exploring what we are born into, what we pass down, preserve,
cast off or willingly set free.



 Her other novels are Awake,
The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?,
won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best
American Short Stories Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards
The Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Essays.

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Elizabeth's interests include reading, writing,
education, nature, travel, teaching, teaching abroad (most recently, in India),
land conservation, history, anthropology, psychology, thrift stores, art,
hiking, raising kids in nature and off technology, researching her novels, and
reading about other cultures.



She teaches at Boston College and is at work on a new
project that draws on the Sephardic Jewish history of her family.



Books will be available for purchase and
signing. Refreshments will be served. No ticket is required.



elizabethgraver.com








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