When She Was Gone
When a teenager disappears, the ordinary life of a suburban neighborhood begins to look different. What have the people around her noticed? What have they kept to themselves?
He remembered the note, but assumed they already knew. He remembered a lot of things, but only answered their questions.— From When She Was Gone
The Orphan Sister
Clementine is a triplet, but her sisters share a closeness she cannot quite enter. When their father goes missing, the family’s secrets make belonging—and becoming her own person—more complicated still.
Though sometimes I am party to this peculiar frequency, sometimes I stand feeling like the last chosen for a team, because they are identical twins, and I am their triplet, number three.— From The Orphan Sister
The Other Mother
Amanda and Thea make different choices about work and motherhood. Their lives become entwined through the care of a child, bringing friendship, dependence, and resentment close together.
"I can't do this, I can't leave her," she said. Just as I was thinking, "I can't do this, I can't keep taking her." But I didn't say it.— From The Other Mother
How far must she go to find a life of her own?
Hannah Blue joins an adventure club for a little distance from her demanding family. Underground caves and icy climbs offer a freedom she cannot find at home. But when her father’s illness becomes real, the exhilaration of getting away comes with a question: who will still be there when she returns?
Discover Getting Out
She came to study bats. Then her professor disappeared.
In the Australian rain forest, Annabel Mendelssohn studies spectacled fruit bats and tries to make sense of a world far from home. When her professor vanishes, she joins his son in a search that touches an older loss: her own brother’s death. What can observation tell her—and what will remain unknowable?
Discover Field GuideGwendolen Gross writes novels, stories, essays, and poetry. Across five novels, she explores the intimacy and friction of family life, friendship, and finding a place of one’s own.
A graduate of Oberlin College, she earned her MFA in fiction and poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.
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From the writing desk to the pottery studio
Away from the writing desk, Gwendolen makes sculptures and functional pottery inspired by narrative and the natural world. Explore her one-of-a-kind work at GG Ceramic Art.
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