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Unravelling

Unravelling Paperback - 1999

by Elizabeth Graver

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In a beautifully realized debut novel reminiscent of "The Scarlet Letter, " an unconventional young woman who chooses independence over conformity is scorned by her family in a 19th-century New England town.

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  • Title Unravelling
  • Author Elizabeth Graver
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition New
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 1999-08-12
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780156006101
  • ISBN 9780156006101 / 0156006103
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.5 x 0.78 in (21.51 x 13.97 x 1.98 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99012649
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

From a small, bogside cabin in rural New England, 38-year-old Aimee Slater unravels the story of her life, attempting to make sense of the tangled thread that leads from her mother's house-a short, unbridgeable distance away-to the world she now inhabits. It is soon after the Civil War; Aimee lives alone, but is graced with visits from two friends, a crippled man and a troubled eleven-year-old girl. She is perpetually caught between the sensual world she so desires and the divine retribution passed down to her by her mother's scorn. How Aimee ultimately creates a life for herself and bridges that distance makes for a moving story of love and loss. Told in a voice of spare New England lyricism, Unravelling is a remarkably haunting account of the power of redemption.

Media reviews

“Like Margaret Atwood in Alias Grace, Elizabeth Graver examines what happens when a nineteenth-century woman defies the conventions of her place and time. . . . This tender, thoughtful novel pays tribute to the way a woman can ultimately patch together her crazy quilt of independence and fulfillment."-Glamour
“A pleasure, quiet and increasingly gripping. In images as simple and specific as that of Aimee's blind rabbit sniffing its salt lick, Graver endows the habits of coping with a profound dignity."-The New Yorker
“This beautiful novel captures the bittersweet relationship between mothers and daughters, where what is not said is just as important as what is."-Seventeen

Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 04/20/2001, Page 66
  • Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 56
  • New York Times, 08/29/1999, Page 32

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