Ephemeral Wings
Like many of us, Maggie is navigating her path through a complex world—except Maggie is a mayfly, and her world is the stream.
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Finalist Next Generation Indie Book Award 2023
Eva Silverfine’s Ephemeral Wings is one of the most innovative novels I’ve ever read.—JS Morrison, author of The Perfection of Fish
A coming of age story as old as the hills but completely original.—Sara B. Fraser, author of Just River
The author . . . imbues each aquatic animal with remarkable individuality that draws the reader in.—M. Alma Solis, in American Entomologist
Ephemeral Wings delights as it teaches about ecology and the impetus of following one’s natural instincts through the luminous story of a lovable mayfly nymph.—IndieReader
Ephemeral Wings tells one of the most meaningful stories I have ever read.—Readers’ Favorite
How to Bury Your Dog
On the day Lizzy buries her longtime pet, news of a threat to the heart of her rural community brings submerged memories to the surface, opening Lizzy’s self-contained world to two young neighbors, an awkward sixteen-year-old and an inquisitive ten-year-old.
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An absorbing, restorative tale of community and nature.—Kirkus Reviews
A timely and captivating environmental drama novel, How to Bury Your Dog couldn’t be more relevant to our current times.—Readers Favorite
Readers seeking a story about connections between individuals, communities, and the forces of special interest that challenge them will find How to Bury Your Dog an outstanding story of transformation.— Midwest Book Review
How to Bury Your Dog weaves a quintessentially American story about our human connection to the land, the critters we love, and the people who complicate our lives – for better or worse. Rich with authentic characters and lovely descriptions of the natural world, Eva Silverfine’s big-hearted novel deftly tackles complex issues such as homeowners’ rights versus the collective good, and our instinctive desire to protect the garden that sustains us. —Ginger Pinholster, author of City in a Forest
Elastic Walls: From Brooklyn to Texas and Points in Between
“Seemingly fixed, the walls of a house are really elastic, accommodating all sorts of things inside.” This collection of essays, a memoir-in-vignettes, travels across time and place, reflecting on homes, family, relationships, pursuits, religion, and loss. From a childhood living above her parents’ hardware store in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn in the 1960s; to an adolescence in the beach community of Rockaway, where the shifting sands mirrored her mother’s departure; to a young adulthood studying science until she remembered earlier aspirations of being a writer; to a parenthood raising two sons one mile down a gravel road in the Hill Country of Central Texas, Eva Silverfine explores that which is enduring among life’s impermanent experiences.
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North Texas Book Festival Book Award for Adult Nonfiction, 2nd place
From Amazon reviewers:
This is a beautifully written book . . . sometimes heart-wrenching, always honest. I loved it.
Such insight, a depth with economy of words I have seldom encountered.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this honest and poignant collection of essays. Every word is heartfelt, and the reader is absorbed by the atmosphere and emotions of places and people.
It’s the kind of book I didn’t want to end.
The language is pure, the expressions are authentic. Each vignette would make for fascinating conversation. . . . Nothing too “precious” here—nothing too “raw.” From pondering a friend’s suicide to Nabokov’s butterflies, every page is visceral yet imminently relatable.
This collection of thematically clustered short essays becomes like verses of a poem, the author’s reflection on her life. . . . It’s all about home: coming home, escaping home, building one’s own home. Home isn’t just about physical structures, it is the people and state of mind that goes along with the sense of place.
Eva Silverfine 