Endling

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness. 'Startling and ambitious'-New York Times - 'Virtuosic.'- NPR, Fresh Air - 'Brilliant and heart-stopping.'- Los Angeles Times 'Animated by dark humor and cool fury.'- The New Yorker - 'Remarkable.'- The Washington Post 'This novel turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one.'- Percival Everett, author of Pulitzer Prize winner James Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who lives out of her mobile