Ramona Ausubel Books in Order

As war approaches a Romanian Jewish village in 1939, residents follow a girl's suggestion to reinvent their world through collective imagination. New roles and stories promise safety, but the surrounding conflict threatens their fragile refuge.

Eleven stories explore love, conception, pregnancy and birth through fantastical changes in familiar lives. People grow extra arms when they fall in love, a pregnant teenager imagines unusual offspring, and a girl encounters a ghost behind her house.

In 1976, wealthy parents Fern and Edgar discover that their inherited fortune has vanished. Each escapes on a separate adventure, leaving their children alone and exposing the dependence, contradictions, and hidden vulnerabilities beneath their comfortable family life.

Eleven stories cross ordinary and fantastic landscapes to explore childhood, parenthood, identity and longing. A homesick mother dissolves into mist, a Cyclops searches for online romance, and travelers discover that emotional journeys can be stranger than distant destinations.

Teenage sisters Eve and Vera discover a preserved baby mammoth while accompanying their mother’s Siberian research expedition. The find sends the family across several countries, challenging scientific boundaries and offering unexpected ways to confront grief and reconnect.