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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.

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Elizabeth Graver is a critically acclaimed author. Her fourth novel, The End of the Point, was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her short-story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in publications such as Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She teaches at Boston College. Gail Shalan is a New York City-based storyteller who holds a master's degree in acting from Bristol Old Vic Theater School. Proudly narrating audiobooks since 2013, she also narrates and produces The StoryLight Podcast. When not exploring the globe or performing, she lives in Queens with her partner and their French bulldog, Edith.

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