Bøker av Elisabeth Sheffield

Ire Land is a formally inventive novel in which the borders between human and animal, dream and reality and art film might dissolve. A novel that both engages with theory and laughs at its insufficiency.

While working at a sleep lab in Germany, Rosemarie Ramee, a 38-year-old American neurologist, falls in love with Aslan, a 11-year-old Turkish Cypriot. To get closer to the boy, RR undertakes a 'marriage of convenience' to the boy's uncle. But when the uncle suddenly disappears, Ramee, alone with Aslan, must take the boy to his relatives in Cyprus.

The narrative of Stella Vanderzee describes her search for a painting she was left by her grandfather and her own assumptions about her troubled family history. Alternating with this are unsent letters by Judith, her aunt and the one-time lover of her mother presenting a quite different view.

What does it mean to really live? Or not? Set in eastern, upstate New York, Helen Keller Really Lived features a fortyish former barfly and grifter who must make a living in the wake of her wealthy husband's death, and who finds work in a clinic helping women seeking reproductive assistance.