Women at Home is a non-fiction book that weaves in the author's own photography. It is also the full-length version of Women at Home, the documentary series Amos Xianjing Dai directed in 2022. Over a decade, she has been a quiet visitor to the daily spaces and inner lives of 14 Chinese women aged 20 to 70, including a single mother, a social media creator, a working professional, an entrepreneur, a retired professor, an elderly woman on a remote island, and others.

The book traces how each woman mends and explores herself in solitude, and how she connects with Chinese society and a complicated world. It records the lives of women living alone in China before and during the pandemic, and the changes of the era behind them. It is about how women live alone and explore themselves, about intimacy and ways of loving, about growing up, life and death, and about time.

Living alone is only the way in. The real questions are: In a fast-developing contemporary China, how can a woman live on her own terms? Where do her deep-rooted certainty and resilience come from? How does each decision take shape, and what is their decision making? And how do these women find connection and support in one another's stories?