HAVE YOU SEEN ME? by Elizabeth Graver...

HAVE YOU SEEN ME? by Elizabeth Graver (The Ecco Press: $9.95; 170 pp., paperback original). Graver’s prize-winning stories focus on the problems of communication in contemporary society. An autistic neighbor embodies the narrator’s inability to articulate her fear of a second miscarriage in “Music for Four Doors.” The priggish daughter of globe-trotting parents expresses her dissatisfaction with her family’s peripatetic way of life by refusing to speak in “The Counting Game.” Graver wins the reader’s attention with her well-crafted sentences, but her dreary, self-involved characters don’t seem to warrant the bother she takes to describe them.