In Elizabeth Graver's quietly enchanting first novel,Unravelling, the longings of the young narrator, Aimee Slater, are strikingly vivid and contemporary, yet the story is set in nineteenth-century New England, at the juncture between the region's rural, puritanical past and all the glittering. It is soon after the Civil War Aimee lives alone, but is 5. Elizabeth Graver ΦΒΚ, Wesleyan University, Author From the publisher: From a small, bogside cabin in rural New England, 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.Smart, wounded but not defeated, year-old. The plainly eloquent voice of narrator Aimee Slater draws readers into this strong and affecting first novel. Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind.
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