International Book Club: Endling by Maria Reva
Wed, Aug 12
|Staunton Books & Tea
Join us at Staunton Books & Tea for our International Book Club, where we read beyond our own borders and gather to talk it through together. This time we're traveling to Ukraine, 2022.
Time & Location
Aug 12, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Staunton Books & Tea, 34 E Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA
About the event
Doors open at 6:30; discussion starts at 7:00.
Leave yourself time to pour a cup of tea, browse, and wonder what else you might read about this world.
Join us at Staunton Books & Tea for our International Book Club, where we read beyond our own borders and gather to talk it through together. This time we're traveling to Ukraine, 2022.
Maria Reva's Endling, longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, begins as something close to a heist comedy. Yeva is a maverick biologist crossing Ukraine in a mobile lab, trying to breed rare snails on the edge of extinction and funding the work by posing as a bride for Western men on "romance tours." Nastia and her sister Solomiya are caught up in the same marriage industry, searching for their mother, an activist who vanished. Then they kidnap a vanful of bachelors, and on that same day, Russia invades, shattering…