Jessica Anthony Books in Order

Rovar sells meat from a bus beside a Virginia stream while tracing the history of his dwindling Hungarian family. His unusual present becomes entangled with generations of marginal lives, private ailments, and a fear of being the last.

Piano prodigy Glory disappears after a childhood shaped by bereavement, strict practice, and public expectations. Photographs, drawings, and messages reconstruct her relationship with neighbor Frank, leaving readers to question what happened and which parts of her story are real.

Congressman Alexander Paine Wilson's carefully managed reelection campaign is disrupted when a stuffed aardvark arrives at his home. His efforts to understand the delivery connect contemporary political ambition with a stranger history of love, secrecy, and taxidermy.

On a warm Sunday in November 1957, Kathleen Beckett enters her apartment complex's swimming pool and refuses to leave. Her decision unsettles the suburban life she and her insurance-salesman husband have built around expectations neither fully chose.