Rebecca Miller Books in Order

Seven stories portray women confronting ambition, violence, motherhood, sexuality, and the desire to survive. An editor’s success destabilizes her marriage, an abused mother seeks safety, and other lives turn at moments of pressure and unexpected possibility.

An ambitious Jewish peddler from eighteenth-century Paris is reincarnated as a fly in modern Long Island. His tiny presence influences a volunteer firefighter and a young Orthodox woman, linking their private desires with his own complicated past.

Seven stories move between family life, unsettling discoveries, and imagined futures. In one, pages found in a farmhouse drawer disturb a couple’s renovation, while other characters confront the consequences of creativity, technology, and intimate relationships.

Drawings made with the artist’s eyes closed portray women in sharply specific emotional states. Brief captions accompany the images, capturing feelings such as frustration, uncertainty, delight, and the everyday contradictions that can be difficult to articulate.

Fifty-year-old Pippa Lee moves with her older husband to a retirement community and finds her carefully managed life unraveling. As she questions the person she has become, memories expose the rebellious history hidden beneath her respectable present.