Zuzu Rosenberg
author, reader

A middle aged woman stands under a rainbow umbrella while kitchen appliances rain down on her. Clouds are above. The sunrise is behind her.

We all want to change the world. Fiction can help.

At its best, fiction supports my quest to be a better person. It helps me appreciate different perspectives, think about the world, and discover scraps of wisdom, strategies for coping, hope. This quest drives my writing and my reading.

© Rayzel Rosenberg. All rights reserved.

Kindness & Chaos
A Kitchen Store Mystery

Coming in 2026

A middle-aged woman with curly auburn hair is holding a rainbow umbrella. She's looking up, worried, at storm clouds above and appliances raining down. Behind her is the bright yellow of sunrise.

Kitchen store manager Meri Goldsmith wants to help heal the world, to be kind and fierce and face down racism and the patriarchy, but she mostly feels like she’s getting it wrong. Social media are fill with rage, and each new headline announces that the sky is hurling a different appliance at her head. She can’t control the world, so she takes comfort in solving the small, addressable problems in her customer service files.
And then her boss, Rowdy Jones, chases a customer from the store for shopping while brown and disappears, inspiring internet rumors that he was kidnapped by terrorists.
Meri is sure that Rowdy is at the center of the ensuing chaos, but the boys' club in the c-suite has his back. But can’t even solve Rowdy on her own, but she does have friends. Together, can they restore hope (and get the files back in order)?
A mystery romp that explores the challenges of the modern world.

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A middle aged woman stands under a rainbow umbrella while kitchen appliances rain down on her. Clouds are above. The sunrise is behind her.

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