Short stories by Elizabeth Graver
Elizabeth Graver’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in BestAmerican Short Stories; Prize Stories: The O. HenryAwards, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Essays_. She teaches at Boston College and is at work on a novel-with-photos inspired by her grandmother, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul.
Listing 2 stories.
A young boy working in his mother's mannequin shop leaves school early one day and witnesses a strange encounter that stays with him well into adulthood.
While trying to conceive a child, a woman finds a small, apricot-sized hand beneath her mattress. She collects more tiny body parts that she finds around her house.