{"title":"Fiction - Absurdist","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"endling-9780385545310","title":"Endling","description":"\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet 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. 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But their plans come to a screeching halt when Russia invades. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral, Endling brilliantly balances horror and comedy, drawing on Reva's own experiences as a Ukrainian expat tracking her family's delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and reality collide on the page, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What stories must we tell ourselves to survive? To carry on with the routines of life under military occupation? 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