Chloe Caldwell Books in Order

In personal essays about childhood, first love, sexual experiences, work, travel, and loss, Chloe Caldwell examines the desires and disappointments shaping a young woman’s life. Her memories trace vulnerability and self-discovery through intimate encounters and heartbreak.

Chloe Caldwell reflects on the uncertain work of becoming an adult through essays about jobs, love, food, drugs, and attachment. Frank accounts of mistakes and changing dependencies examine the gap between desired lives and lived experience.

A summer job at an upstate New York camp immerses Chloe Caldwell in teenage uncertainty and unconventional spiritual practices. Amid healing rituals, borrowed clothes, and emotional upheaval, she encounters unexpected lessons in her own growth.

As a new relationship grows serious, Chloe Caldwell recognizes a connection between her hormonal cycle and episodes of anxiety and rage. Investigating PMDD leads her to reconsider her body, identity, family history, and expectations of love.

While writing about infertility and the uncertainty of trying to conceive, Chloe Caldwell confronts a betrayal within her marriage. Her memoir follows the upheaval that reopens questions of queer identity, desire, writing, and possible futures.

A young writer moves to the city and falls in love with Finn, an older woman who already has a girlfriend. Their relationship draws her into questions about queer identity, longing, obsession, and emotional dependence.