![]() ![]() On my bog there is heat lightning, and lightning bugs too, blinking across the pond which grows bigger one year, smaller the next. When I was a child playing here, my flesh was plump and sweet and they flocked to me and drank my blood now I am no longer a girl, but still they swarm me. I step onto the peat, which gives like a mattress, and the insects circle me in clouds. After giving birth to twins out of wedlock, she returns home to shame - and "an impossible distance" that has spread between her and her mother.Īt night, because it is summer and the air is hot and close, the mosquitoes float like snowflakes over the bog. (CNN) - At the age of 26, Elizabeth Graver became the youngest writer ever to win the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize (1991), for her first collection of short stories, "Have You Seen Me?" Now Graver marks another promising first - a novel entitled "Unravelling," about a 19th century New Hampshire farm girl who heads to the fabric mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() CNN - Books: "Unravelling" by Elizabeth Graver - Jan. ![]()
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