Graver’s 2023 novel, Kantika, was inspired by the migration story of her Turkish Sephardic Jewish maternal grandmother, Rebecca, whose journey took her from Turkey to Spain, Cuba and New York.
The novel, featured by The New York Times Book Review editor Alida Becker,[2] is set in a summer community on the coast of Massachusetts from 1942 through 1999 and is a layered meditation on place and family across half a century.
Graver's first novel, Unravelling, is set in 19th-century America in the Lowell textile mills and tells the story of a fiercely independent young woman and the life she eventually fashions for herself.
Benjamin DeMott, reviewing it for The New York Times, wrote that Unravelling "creates a home-on-the-margins beyond cant—a kind of exiles' utopia, intensely imagined, right-valued, memorable.
"[3] The Honey Thief, a contemporary novel exploring a mother-daughter relationship, was reviewed in The New York Times by Katharine Weber, who described it as a narrative in which "neither resolution nor redemption is guaranteed—or even, necessarily, hoped for.