Community Book Club is open to everyone and all are we lcome! Tea and cookies provided.
\nThe \;library has copies \;on a first-come-first-served basis.
\nYou can purchase your own co py in person at \;Gather Booksho p \;or \;Book Mountain. Mention the Squamish Library book club to get 15% off your purchase!
\ n\nIn the absurdist literary tradition of Georg e Saunders comes the debut novel of a writer who is "bang-on brilliant" (M iriam Toews) and "bright\, funny\, satirical\, relevant" (Margaret Atwood) \, chronicling the exploits of three Ukrainian women and one very endanger ed snail through the travails of foreign invasion\, unlikely romance\, cap italist exploitation\, and nail-biting survival. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral\, Endling brilliantly balances the comedic stakes set in motion by the plot while drawing on Reva's personal experiences as a Ukrainian expat\, forced to witness the hostilities from afar while tracking her family's delicate dance of survival behind enemy l ines. As fiction and real life combine on the page\, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What is it like to leave behind one's home and possessions? Conversely\, what is it like to stay and continue with the mundanities of life and work under military occupation? For those of us witnessing from overseas: how does our sense of reality change? Can normalcy and security be restored\, or have they always been an illusion? Endling is a tour de f orce from an author on the cutting edge of fiction\, telling a story of lo ve\, loss\, humour\, and devastation that only she could tell.
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