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Off the Page: Author Visit with Mary Kay Zuravleff

Author of Oprah Pick "American Ending"

2023-07-18 19:00:00 2023-07-18 20:00:00 America/Chicago Off the Page: Author Visit with Mary Kay Zuravleff Join us to hear Mary Kay Zuravleff read from her new novel, American Ending - a Spring 2023 Oprah Pick! Hinsdale Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Tuesday, July 18
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-07-18 19:00:00 2023-07-18 20:00:00 America/Chicago Off the Page: Author Visit with Mary Kay Zuravleff Join us to hear Mary Kay Zuravleff read from her new novel, American Ending - a Spring 2023 Oprah Pick! Hinsdale Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Hinsdale Public Library

Community Meeting Room

Join us to hear Mary Kay Zuravleff read from her new novel, American Ending - a Spring 2023 Oprah Pick!

HPL is delighted to present Mary Kay Zuravleff, in celebration of her new novel, American Ending! Inspired by her grandparents, immigrants of the Old Believer Russian Orthodox faith brought here to mine coal in Appalachia, American Ending weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. Mary Kay will be interviewed by local author Dick Munson. Copies of the book will be available at the library as of its release date, June 6.

Mary Kay Zuravleff is the award-winning author of American Ending, 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, Man Alive!, was a Washington Post Notable Book, and she is the winner of the American Academy’s Rosenthal Award and a multiple recipient of the DC Artist Fellowship. Born in Syracuse, raised in Oklahoma City, and educated in Houston and Baltimore, she lives in Washington, DC.

American Ending

A woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life.

Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents, who are building a life in a Pennsylvania Appalachian town. This town, in the first decades of the 20th century, is filled with Russian transplants and a new church with a dome. Here, boys quit grade school for the coal mines and girls are married off at fourteen. The young pair up, give birth to more babies than they can feed, and make shaky starts in their new world. However, Yelena craves a different path. Will she find her happy American ending or will a dreaded Russian ending be her fate?

In this immersive novel, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges facing immigrants—and the fragility of citizenship—are just as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago. American Ending is a poignant reminder that everything that is happening in America has already happened.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books |

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