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Endling: An Evening with Maria Reva

2025-06-18 18:30:00 2025-06-18 20:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Endling: An Evening with Maria Reva An evening with award-winning writer Maria Reva. Squamish Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Wednesday, June 18
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-06-18 18:30:00 2025-06-18 20:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Endling: An Evening with Maria Reva An evening with award-winning writer Maria Reva. Squamish Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Squamish Public Library

Community Meeting Room

An evening with award-winning writer Maria Reva.

Maria Reva's new book, Endling (Penguin Random House, 2025), is a novel 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 the impact of war.

In the absurdist literary tradition of George Saunders and Percival Everett comes this brilliant debut novel by a writer who is “bang-on brilliant" (Miriam Toews).


About Maria Reva:

Maria Reva writes fiction and opera libretti. She is the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear, set in an apartment block in Ukraine, as well as Endling (June 2025). Maria’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She won a National Magazine Award in 2019 and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada 2020 Fiction Prize. Maria was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.


Gather Bookshop will have books for sale at the event!


Accessibility at this event:

  • Accessible, all-genders washroom.
  • Ramp entrance to building with handrails.
  • Masks welcome.
  • If you require further accommodations, please let us know on the registration page.
  • Find more information about accessibility library here.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Event |

TAGS: | Author Talk | Adults |

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