Books written by Maria Hummel

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  Still Lives: A Novel

  Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self–portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others―and the works are as compelling as they ...

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  Motherland

  Inspired by the stories told by her father about his German childhood and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years, Motherland is a novel that attempts to reckon with the paradox of the author's ...

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  Still Lives: A Novel

  Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self–portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others―and the works are as compelling as they ...

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  Lesson In Red

  A companion to Still Lives--a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection--this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world and reveals the fatal mistakes that can befall those who threaten its status quo.

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  House and Fire

  From "House and Fire": for thirty-three years I didn't make anything with my body and thenyour brother and thenhe sickened watching him sleephooked to tubes an empty envelopeinside me fills each dawnwith one long love letter by night it's ...

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  Wilderness Run: A Novel

  ... in every season and on every stranger's face . Dear Isabel , remember me , and that one man loved the up- right soul in you . Louis Pierre Pacquette Bel shuddered as she finished the letter . The very earth seemed to have shifted around ...

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  Motherland: A Novel

  Inspired by the author’s extended family and their status as Mitläufer—Germans who ‘went along’ with Nazism, reaping its benefits and later paying the consequences Inspired by the stories told by her father about his German ...