Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Saint X | 2020 | Buy |
| Elsewhere | 2022 | Buy |
Alexis Schaitkin has published two novels that have earned strong critical attention. Her debut, Saint X (2020), follows a woman who becomes obsessed with the unsolved death of her sister years earlier during a family vacation on a Caribbean island. The novel explores grief, memory, and how a tragedy ripples through the lives of everyone connected to it.
Her second novel, Elsewhere (2022), takes a different approach, imagining an isolated community where mothers periodically disappear without explanation. The town accepts this as a fact of life, and the novel examines how the remaining families adapt. Both books show Schaitkin’s interest in how communities process loss and how people construct stories to explain what they cannot understand.