Krauss's work often explores the relationship between Jewish history and identity, the limited capacity of language and communication to produce understanding, loneliness, and memory. These themes are readily appreciable beginning in her first novel "Man Walks Into a Room", wherein the protagonist loses years of lived memory while retaining all cognitive function. Playing with tenets of cognitive neuroscience and metaphysics, "Man Walks Into a Room" considers the relative roles of lived experience, materiality, and cognitive memory in shaping personal identity and being.