Jessica Shattuck Books

Jessica Shattuck is an American novelist whose fiction explores family, privilege, and the effects of history on private lives. Her novels include *The Hazards of Good Fortune* and *The Women in the Castle*, which…

Jessica Shattuck is an American novelist whose fiction explores family, privilege, and the effects of history on private lives. Her novels include *The Hazards of Good Fortune* and *The Women in the Castle*, which follows three women in postwar Germany as they confront the legacies of the Nazi era. Shattuck’s work is marked by close attention to character and by questions of memory, responsibility, and moral choice.