Stefan Merrill Block Books in Order

As his mother develops early-onset Alzheimer's, teenager Seth searches for her unknown relatives and genetic history. His quest intersects with an elderly Texan's memories and stories of a mythical land without remembrance, linking family loss with the desire to forget.

After years of managing her husband's volatile moods, Katharine commits Frederick to a psychiatric hospital in 1962. While he struggles within the institution and she raises their daughters, both confront the distance between their remembered marriage and its painful present.

Ten years after a school shooting leaves Oliver unable to communicate, his family remains divided by grief and uncertainty. A promising medical test revives hopes of reaching him and uncovering what happened on the night that transformed their Texas town.

A college freshman with severe facial burns hides the circumstances of his injury while navigating parties and new friendships. His attraction to the sharp, beautiful Ava deepens his struggle with shame, desire, and the consequences of his past choices.

Stefan Merrill Block recalls being removed from school at nine and educated under his mother's increasingly erratic control. His memoir follows isolation, a difficult return to public school, and the search for independence alongside his later efforts to understand and forgive.