Jillian Medoff Books in Order

Directionless Frannie Hunter returns to her parents’ Long Island home as her younger sister is hospitalized for anorexia. Her family’s expectations and her own troubled relationship with food and body image complicate the crisis. Dark humor accompanies her struggle to understand herself and those she loves.

Actuary Janey Fabre joins group therapy while obsessing over an ex boyfriend and hiding painful family history. The women she meets gradually become allies, determined to solve one another’s problems. Their shared mischief turns into revenge, forcing Janey to confront secrets beneath her carefully managed life.

Eliot Gordon’s carefully balanced blended family is unsettled when an old love returns. Then a beach outing forces her to make an unbearable decision about which child to save. The consequences test family bonds, parental love, and the limits of choices that cannot be undone.

Human resources chief Rosa Guerrero anchors the lives of employees at a struggling consumer research company. Her staff navigate workplace attachments, ambition, loneliness, and financial pressure. When Rosa’s own world begins to fail, their loyalty and sense of purpose face unexpected tests.

Cassie Quinn returns to her wealthy Manhattan family after her brother Billy is accused of sexual assault. As they assemble his defense, family loyalty collides with uncomfortable evidence and buried history. Cassie’s own experiences complicate her certainty about innocence, consent, privilege, and the truth.

In 1961 Seattle, seven citizens are asked to choose which gravely ill patients will receive scarce dialysis treatment. Their intersecting lives reveal the personal pressures behind decisions that force them to weigh fairness, responsibility, and the value of human life.