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2001 Nominated

The Honey Thief

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Critics across the country hailed Elizabeth Graver’s first novel, Unravelling, as “exceptional” (The New York Times Book Review), a ” pleasure” (The New Yorker), and “exquisitely poignant and sensual” (The Boston Globe). Now, Graver turns her talents to a contemporary novel about a woman and child who find that they cannot move ahead with the future until they can look clearly at the past. The summer that eleven-year-old Eva is picked up on her fourth shoplifting charge, her mother, Miriam, decide that the only solution is to move from Manhattan to a quiet town in upstate New York. There, she tells Eva, they can have a “normal” life.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Elizabeth
Graver

Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika, was inspired by her grandmother Rebecca, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul and whose shape-shifting life journey took her to Spain, Cuba and New York. Kantika was awarded the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award, the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, and a National Jewish Book Award.  It was named a Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023 and Notable Book  of the Year by The New York Times, and a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Lilith and Libby, and translated into German and Turkish. Elizabeth’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction. Her other novels are AwakeThe Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Essays.  The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Yaddo and MacDowell, she teaches at Boston College.
Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika, was inspired by her grandmother Rebecca, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul and whose shape-shifting life journey took her to Spain, Cuba and New York. Kantika was awarded the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award, the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, and a National Jewish Book Award.  It was named a Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023 and Notable Book  of the Year by The New York Times, and a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Lilith and Libby, and translated into German and Turkish. Elizabeth’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction. Her other novels are AwakeThe Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Essays.  The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Yaddo and MacDowell, she teaches at Boston College.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
USA
Publisher
Hyperion Publications, Women’s Press

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