Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| It Is Wood, It Is Stone | 2020 | Buy |
| Wait | 2024 | Buy |
Gabriella Burnham writes literary fiction rooted in the experience of straddling two cultures. Her debut novel, It Is Wood, It Is Stone (2020), follows an American woman who moves to Sao Paulo with her academic husband and finds herself drawn into an unexpected relationship with her Brazilian housekeeper. The book received praise for its sharp observation of class, race, and power dynamics.
Her second novel, Wait (2024), continues her interest in characters caught between worlds. Burnham brings a personal understanding of Brazilian-American life to her fiction, and her prose style favors restraint and close attention to the interior lives of her characters.