Books

Girlfriend on Mars
Forthcoming June 2023

An audacious and original debut, this novel is fast-paced, bitingly funny, and deeply moving. A satire of modern greed in the face of the environmental crisis, a humorous inside-look at the making of reality TV, and an examination of the sorrows, challenges and beauty of long-term love.

The Dark and Other Love Stories
Published: February 2017

The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted.

 

Vanishing and Other Stories
Published: May 2009

In Vanishing and Other Stories, secrets are both kept and unearthed, and lives are shaped by missing lovers, parents, and children. With wisdom and dexterity, moments of dark humor, and a remarkable economy of words, Deborah Willis captures an incredible array of characters that linger in the imagination and prove that nothing is ever truly forgotten.