Andrea Lee Books in Order

Andrea Lee records a stay in the Soviet Union with her husband, a history researcher. Observations of Moscow and Leningrad, encounters with residents and foreigners, and everyday experiences reveal the complexities of Soviet society through an outsider's perspective.

Raised in a middle-class Black Philadelphia family, Sarah Phillips looks beyond the traditions and expectations surrounding her childhood. Interconnected episodes trace her education, family relationships, and travels abroad as she explores race, belonging, privilege, and independence.

These stories follow cosmopolitan women negotiating desire, identity, and unfamiliar cultures. Through travel, relationships, and encounters abroad, Andrea Lee explores the unexpected choices and private tensions beneath lives that appear sophisticated, secure, or comfortably removed from home.

Newlyweds Mira and Nick Ward move to Rome for Nick's banking career. Mira's affair with an Italian billionaire transforms their marriage, and the story follows all three people through the lasting consequences of desire, betrayal, and regret.

Black American professor Shay becomes the mistress of a beach villa in Madagascar through her Italian husband's wealth. Encounters with the island's people expose tensions between her position of privilege, her ancestry, and the colonial history shaping their lives.