Books written by Jill Ciment

  • The Body in Question: A Novel

    Hannah's "one last dalliance before she is too old" takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as the novel moves to its affecting, powerful and surprising conclusion.

  • The Body in Question: A Novel

    Hannah's "one last dalliance before she is too old" takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as the novel moves to its affecting, powerful and surprising conclusion.

  • The Body in Question: A Novel

    After the verdict, Hannah returns home to her much older husband, but the case ignites once again and Hannah’s “one last dalliance before she is too old” takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences as The Body in Question ...

  • Heroic Measures: A Novel

    But this is also the weekend when Alex and Ruth must sell the apartment in which they have lived for most of their adult lives.

  • Half a Life: A Memoir

    Half a Life traces Jill Ciment's family from Toronto to the California desert—a landscape and culture so alien to her father that the last vestiges of sanity leave him.

  • Act of God: A Novel

    As the mold infestation spreads from row house to high-rise, and frightened, bewildered New Yorkers wait out this plague (is it an act of God?) on their city and property, the four women become caught up in a centrifugal nightmare.

  • The Tattoo Artist: A Novel

    Narrated in vivid and starkly moving prose, The Tattoo Artist reminds us of the unforeseeable forces that shape each human life.

  • Heroic Measures

    But this is also the weekend when Alex and Ruth must sell the apartment in which they have lived for most of their adult lives.

  • Heroic Measures

    Moving on is never easy Ruth and Alex Cohen are saying goodbye to their beloved New York apartment - because how can they turn down a million dollars? Tomorrow they...

  • Act of God: A Novel

    But that’s only the beginning … Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment’s brilliant novel looks at what happens when our lives—so seemingly set and ordered—break down in the wake of calamity.

  • The Tattoo Artist

    Sara Ehrenreich, an acclaimed American painter who has spent the past thirty years living on a remote South Pacific island, returns to New York in the 1970s, in a novel that reveals the story of her life through flashbacks.

  • LAW OF FALLING BODIES

    This is the only world Kim has ever known, until Arthur, a widow thirty years older than her, crashes into her life and takes her heart hostage.