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SUMMARY:Off the Page: Author Visit with Mary Kay Zuravleff
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DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear Mary Kay Zuravleff read from her new novel\, A
 merican Ending - a Spring 2023 Oprah Pick!.\nhttps://hinsdale.libnet.info/
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>HPL is delighted to present Mary Kay Zurav
 leff\, in celebration of her new novel\, <em>American Ending</em>! Inspire
 d by her grandparents\, immigrants of the Old Believer Russian Orthodox fa
 ith brought here to mine coal in Appalachia\, <em>American Ending</em> wea
 ves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied A
 merican landscape. Mary Kay will be interviewed by local author Dick Munso
 n. Copies of the book will be available at the library as of its release d
 ate\, June 6.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>Mary&nbsp\;Kay&nbsp\;Zuravleff</str
 ong>&nbsp\;is the award-winning author of&nbsp\;<em>American Ending</em>\,
  inspired by all four of her grandparents\, Russian Orthodox Old Believers
  who lived in the Appalachian mining town of Marianna\, Pennsylvania\, and
  made their way to Erie. Her third novel\,&nbsp\;Man Alive!\, was a&nbsp\;
 Washington Post&nbsp\;Notable Book\, and she is the winner of the American
  Academy&rsquo\;s Rosenthal Award and a multiple recipient of the DC Artis
 t Fellowship. Born in Syracuse\, raised in Oklahoma City\, and educated in
  Houston and Baltimore\, she lives in Washington\, DC.</p>\n<p><strong>Ame
 rican Ending</strong></p>\n<p><em>A woman growing up in a family of Russia
 n immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life.</em></p>\n<p>Y
 elena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox pare
 nts\, who are building a life in a Pennsylvania Appalachian town. This tow
 n\, in the first decades of the 20th century\, is filled with Russian tran
 splants and a new church with a dome. Here\, boys quit grade school for th
 e coal mines and girls are married off at fourteen. The young pair up\, gi
 ve birth to more babies than they can feed\, and make shaky starts in thei
 r new world. However\, Yelena craves a different path. Will she find her h
 appy American ending or will a dreaded Russian ending be her fate?</p>\n<p
 >In this immersive novel\, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables
  into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges 
 facing immigrants&mdash\;and the fragility of citizenship&mdash\;are just 
 as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago. American En
 ding is a poignant reminder that everything that is happening in America h
 as already happened.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://hinsdale.libnet.info/e
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