Kevin Powers Books in Order

Young soldiers Bartle and Murphy rely on each other during brutal fighting in Iraq, bound by Bartle's promise to bring Murphy home. Their struggle to survive follows them beyond combat, exposing war's lasting psychological damage.

These poems trace a soldier’s experience of war and its continuing presence in civilian life. Memories of Iraq, love, family, and ordinary American landscapes reveal how violence unsettles language and how returning home leaves difficult questions of belonging unanswered.

Lives connected to a Virginia plantation reveal the enduring consequences of slavery and the Civil War. Decades later, an elderly man displaced by highway construction searches for his origins, linking personal loss with America's unresolved history.

Former Iraqi interpreter Arman Bajalan fears a body discovered on a Virginia beach is connected to the violence that destroyed his family. A detective and journalist pursue the case, uncovering threats tied to a powerful defense contractor and buried wartime secrets.

In rural Virginia, Roy dreams of university while Samantha resists the future expected of a minister’s daughter. The arrival of the wild Ennis Duke and the outbreak of war draw their ambitions and attachments toward choices that will reshape their lives.