Rachel Swirsky Books in Order

A painter’s dying former teacher asks for a portrait that crosses the dangerous boundary between art and magic. Accepting the commission forces the artist to confront resentment, ambition, and the consequences of preserving a life unnaturally.

Sorceresses, lovers, artificial beings, and survivors confront grief, power, and transformation across imagined worlds. Rachel Swirsky’s stories move through myth, contemporary life, and distant futures to examine human attachments under extraordinary pressures.

While clearing out his late grandparents’ house, Chris finds each room carrying him back into painful childhood memories. Escaping the building and its lingering cruelty may require learning to control time rather than merely endure it.

On the day Americans receive their annual basic income payment, four women face very different choices. A mother, journalist, wealthy student, and pregnant teenager reveal how money intersects with freedom, safety, and the possibility of change.

Three elderly sisters remain stubbornly attached to their old grievances even after death. Their refusal to make peace turns the prospect of a quiet afterlife into another chapter of the arguments that have long bound them together.