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- Winner of the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
- “12 Women Who Write Amazing Short Fiction”
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Have You Seen Me?
(Stories)
Winner of the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Richard Ford, this first collection of ten stories is notable for its lyrical accounts of children and young adults managing to survive emotionally in an unstable or painful world. Imagination—the mind’s ability to travel beyond itself inside itself—is central to Graver’s fiction. Stories in the collection appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous other anthologies and journals.
Praise
“It is as if Elizabeth Graver were in possession of a magnifying lens that allows her precise access to the nuances of the human soul.”
—Belles Lettres
“These are subtle, illuminating and exquisitely pretty stories. They have wisdom at their hearts—which is always a shock, and especially so when it is wisdom composed by a writer so young. Ms. Graver seems to be in full control of remarkable talent.”
—Richard Ford
“Graver writes wisely of damage contained by intelligence, of emotions named and mastered by consciousness . . . . Hers is a voice one wants to hear from again, and very soon.”
—The Boston Review
“A quietly delightful debut . . . The intelligent contention of Graver’s warm-hearted stories is that, however invisible to the eye of the world, we all come up against problematic moments that tilt life on its axis.”
—The London Times
“In these 10 thoughtful short stories, awarded the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Graver depicts seemingly minor events that trigger subtle emotional tending her baby sister, a pregnant 30-year-old intrigued by her neighbor’s autistic female cousin on a camping trip, a young woman in a back brace who longs to feel authenticity.”
—Publishers Weekly