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Elizabeth Poliner

Biography

Elizabeth Poliner

Elizabeth Poliner is the author of MUTUAL LIFE & CASUALTY, a novel-in-stories, and a collection of poems, WHAT YOU KNOW IN YOUR HANDS. Her stories and poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner and many other journals. A recipient of seven individual artist grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, she has also been awarded fiction scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers' conferences. She teaches creative writing at Hollins University.

Elizabeth Poliner

Books by Elizabeth Poliner

by Elizabeth Poliner - Fiction

In 1948, sisters Ada, Vivie and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage in Woodmont, Connecticut. Ada is unimpeded by her strict, religious husband. Vivie is the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between a family-centric life and a passion-filled life with a married man. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, the girls’ lives are changed forever. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was 12 years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others?