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Hey Elizabeth, I published my first book This is the Summer and Goodreads has linked it to your profile? I have reached out to them about having my own author profile. Just wanted you to know I'm trying to get it unlinked :) Congrats on Kantika!
Elizabeth Graver Congratulations on your publication, Elizabeth (and I like your name 😉). Let me know if you succeed in unlinking your book from my profile. If you run into issues, I can try too. I guess Goodreads’ system got confused by the fact that we have the same name!
Best,
Elizabeth
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Congratulations on Kantika, Elizabeth! Can you share some of the most gratifying and surprising responses you've gotten to the book thus far?
Elizabeth Graver Thanks for asking, Aaron! I've had some lovely encounters so far with people whose family histories intersect with the worlds of my novel. Yesterday, I got an email from a woman with the same name as my heroine (and grandmother in real life), Rebecca Cohen. Her family also came from Istanbul and left to avoid military conscription. And she attended the same high school as my mother in Queens! I've also gotten gratifying responses from historians who work in Sephardic Studies and from musicians who are reviving Sephardic/Ladino music (I have two upcoming joint events with one of them, Sarah Aroeste, and am in conversation with a wonderful young musician named Tutti Druyan, who coincidentally also has a project called Kantika!). Writing a novel can be quite solitary. I'm loving all these conversations out in the world!
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not a question but truly enjoyed Kantika YEARS AGO we had a back and forth when my book club read The Honey Thief--cant recall specifics, but we were all impressed when you answered my emails [context etc, forgotten] wishing you much success with this new book and adding in ? Andrea
Elizabeth Graver Thank you, Andrea! Lovely to meet up again with kind readers of my earlier books. Each one takes me quite awhile to write so they are pretty spread out!
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