Alina Bronsky Books in Order

Seventeen-year-old Russian immigrant Sascha lives in Germany with anger toward the stepfather who murdered her mother. Determined to protect her siblings and seek revenge, she forms an intense connection with a newspaper editor's family while struggling to escape her past.

Domineering Rosa Achmetowna attempts to control her daughter Sulfia and beloved granddaughter Aminat. Told through Rosa's self-justifying perspective, this darkly comic family saga follows manipulation, hardship and the damage caused by her relentless determination to get her way.

After a dog attack disfigures his face, seventeen-year-old Marek reluctantly attends a support group for young people with disabilities. Attraction to another member and a family crisis challenge his contempt, forcing him to reconsider friendship, dependence and his own identity.

Baba Dunja returns to her radiation-contaminated village near Chernobyl with a small group of former neighbors. Their unconventional community finds contentment in ordinary routines until a stranger's arrival threatens the fragile peace they have rebuilt.

Young Max lives with his grandparents in a German refugee residence under his grandmother's fiercely controlling rule. When his quiet grandfather falls for a neighbor, Max observes a family upheaval that exposes secrets beneath the matriarch's authority.

Retired Walter Schmidt has always relied on his wife to run their home. When Barbara becomes bedridden, learning to care for her forces him to question his habits, his family relationships, and the marriage he took for granted.