Samantha Hunt Books in Order

A young woman in an isolated coastal town believes she is a mermaid, a conviction tied to her father's disappearance. Her love for an older Iraq veteran deepens the tension between her imagined world and reality.

In 1943, hotel chambermaid Louisa befriends the aging inventor Nikola Tesla in New York. Their unlikely connection unfolds alongside her father's hopes for time travel, bringing invention, loneliness, and loss into their intertwined lives.

Orphans Ruth and Nat become involved in a scheme to communicate with the dead. Years later, Ruth silently leads her pregnant niece Cora across New York, connecting a mysterious journey with the secrets of her childhood.

An unfinished manuscript discovered after her father's death prompts Samantha Hunt to investigate haunting in its many forms. She interweaves memoir, literary inquiry, and family history to explore grief, addiction, reading, and the persistence of absent people.

These stories bring uncanny transformations into ordinary lives, following girls becoming women, women becoming animals, and people confronting doubles or ghosts. Hunt explores unstable identities and the strange possibilities that emerge within familiar relationships and routines.