Anthony Marra Books in Order

When wolves return to the forest, Vera Pavlova recognizes a warning of hunger and desperation. As men use her home to package drugs, she confronts the choices she made for her mother and the harm reaching her daughter.

After Russian forces abduct her father in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa flees with a neighbor to a ruined hospital. There, a doctor grieving her missing sister becomes part of a web of past betrayals and unexpected connections unfolding over five days.

Interwoven stories follow Soviet and post-Soviet lives shaped by censorship, imprisonment, and war. A defaced photograph and an unremarkable landscape painting connect strangers across generations, revealing the lasting consequences of private loyalties and political violence.

Italian immigrant Maria Lagana works at a struggling Hollywood studio as America approaches World War II. Navigating exile, censorship and conflicting loyalties, she must confront her father's fate when a stranger from his past unsettles the life she has built.