Interesting article. I’m planning to write a memoir about my father’s amazing travels abroad later in the year.
Elizabeth Graver has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston College since 1993. She is the author of the National Book Award-nominated The End of the Point (2013), as well as the novels Awake (2005), The Honey Thief (2000), and The Unraveling (1999) and the short story collection Have You Seen Me? (1991).
I am currently in the early stages of a new project that finds its inspiration in the Sephardic Jewish history of my family on my mother’s side. As is typical for me at this stage, the project’s shape (linked stories? novel? non-fiction?) is still well beyond my grasp. So, too, are the defining features of its central characters and even its time frame (1492-2014? 1910-1960? 1957?). I love this phase, when everything is possibility and play. I research, mull, gather, interview, dream, discard, gather more, explore.
Two months ago, I traveled with my mother…
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