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Author:

Graver, Elizabeth, 1964- author.

Title:

Kantika : a novel / Elizabeth Graver.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

287 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cohen family--Fiction.
Self-realization in women--Fiction.
Sephardim--Fiction.
Judaism--Customs and practices--Customs and practices--Fiction.
Arranged marriage--Fiction.
Istanbul (Turkey)--Fiction.
Barcelona (Spain)--Fiction.
Havana (Cuba)--Fiction.
New York (State)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Religious fiction.

Summary:

"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way--a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge--her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body--in work, art and love--serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only life." --Amazon.

ISBN:

1250869846
9781250869845

LCCN:

2022052762

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

YAPC771 -- Bondurant Community Library (Bondurant)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

JSPB572 -- Ely Public Library (Ely)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

VBPC034 -- Postville Public Library (Postville)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)