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Elena Graf

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Award-winning novelist Elena Graf has been scribbling stories since high school. Her first novel, Occasions of Sin was published in 2012. She considers herself primarily a historical novelist, but she is probably best known for the contemporary Hobbs series, featuring a group of middle-aged women living in a small town in Maine.

The novels in the Passing Rites series are set in Europe in the early 20th century and show how a noble family dealt with the momentous changes of the period. Two volumes in the series won both Golden Crown Literary Society and Rainbow Awards for historical fiction.

Elena Graf pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy and often explores difficult moral situations in her fiction. She ended up in the “accidental profession” of pub
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High October (Hobbs, #1)

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This Is My Body (Hobbs, #2)

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Strands (Hobbs #7)

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Summer People (Hobbs, #6)

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Why politics matter in WLW fiction

"I wish she'd leave out the politics," wrote one reviewer. I get it. No one looking to be entertained wants to read a sermon instead. But I just finished writing a new book, Strands, in which the story turns on whether the characters can marry. Some of the noises from the U.S. Supreme Court, notably decisions regarding abortion, make me worry that the right of same sex couples to marry may be in d Read more of this blog post »
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“The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job . . . The rest is automatic. You don’t need to lift a finger. The machine is in perfect order; it has been oiled ever since time began, and it runs without friction . . . Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless . . . In a tragedy, nothing is in doubt and everyone’s destiny is known. That makes for tranquility . . . Tragedy is restful; and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. There isn’t any hope. You’re trapped.”
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“So, while she innocently sang devout words in the convent chapel, I was very deliberately plotting my way into her vagina.”
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“For a woman who took such pride in self-control, she was so damn easy to seduce.”
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“The greater the risk, the more delicious the triumph.”
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“The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job . . . The rest is automatic. You don’t need to lift a finger. The machine is in perfect order; it has been oiled ever since time began, and it runs without friction . . . Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless . . . In a tragedy, nothing is in doubt and everyone’s destiny is known. That makes for tranquility . . . Tragedy is restful; and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. There isn’t any hope. You’re trapped.”
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