Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika, was inspired by her grandmother, Rebecca née Cohen Baruch Levy, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul in 1903 and whose tumultuous and shape-shifting life journey took her to Spain, Cuba and finally New York. Exploring identity, place and exile,
What a fascinating story, which made me remember my paternal grandparents fondly & which reminded me that I wanted to write a story about their lifelong work with bees. 🤍
What a fascinating story, which made me remember my paternal grandparents fondly & which reminded me that I wanted to write a story about their lifelong work with bees. 🤍