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Rebecca Miller - Total: Stories

Book cover for "Total: Stories" by Rebecca Miller
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Filmmaker and author Rebecca Miller returns to short fiction for the first time since “Personal Velocity” with the arresting, darkly prescient collection “Total: Stories.” From Dublin to Martha’s Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to a technologically infected near future that mirrors today, each of the seven stories in “Total” is a world of its own.

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