Nancy Rommelmann Books in Order

This culinary handbook explains food terminology, cooking techniques, and menu language for readers hoping to understand what they eat. Practical explanations sit alongside food lore, offering context for unfamiliar ingredients, preparations, and conversations about dining.

This 2001 guide surveys Los Angeles bars, clubs, live entertainment, and places to find food late at night. Geographic organization and cross-references help readers compare venues and plan outings across the city's varied nightlife districts.

Three homeless teenage girls pursue dreams of Hollywood success while facing unstable housing and daily danger. Over six months, their experiences, including one girl's pregnancy, reveal the precarious lives behind their hopes of finding opportunity in Los Angeles.

Rommelmann recalls growing up in Brooklyn Heights during the 1970s, when truancy and roaming the streets offered teenage girls a sense of freedom. Their adventures unfold against parental disapproval and the changing boundaries of adolescence.

This story collection moves between magical realism, speculative fiction, and dark comedy, exploring shame, loss, and unfamiliar ways of coping. In the title story, two grieving parents travel around the world separately in search of healing.

In 1994, Rommelmann travels from Los Angeles to Illinois with Rick Gaez, a pen pal of imprisoned serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Their visit and her reporting examine Gacy, his correspondents, and questions surrounding capital punishment.

After Amanda Stott-Smith drops her two children from Portland's Sellwood Bridge, one dies and the other survives. Drawing on seven years of interviews and records, Rommelmann investigates the family's history and the circumstances surrounding the crime.