Skip to main content
close
Font size options
Increase or decrease the font size for this website by clicking on the 'A's.
Contrast options
Choose a color combination to give the most comfortable contrast.
Image for event: Off the Page: Author Visit with Mary Kay Zuravleff

Registration now closed

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 |

TAGS: | |

Hinsdale Public Library

Phone: (630) 986-1976
Fax: (630) 986-9654

Hours
Mon, Jun 02 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Tue, Jun 03 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, Jun 04 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Jun 05 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, Jun 06 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jun 07 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jun 08 1:00PM to 5:00PM

Upcoming Events

Mon, Jun 02, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Memorial Plaza

Wed, Jun 04, 10:00am - 11:00am

Wed, Jun 04, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Board Room

Thu, Jun 05, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Fri, Jun 06, All day

Fri, Jun 06, All day

Fri, Jun 06, 9:30am - 11:00am
Memorial Plaza

Sat, Jun 07, All day
This event is full

Sat, Jun 07, 10:00am - 4:00pm

Sat, Jun 07, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Mon, Jun 09, All day

Tue, Jun 10, 10:00am - 10:30am
Community Meeting Room,Memorial Plaza

Tue, Jun 10, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Community Meeting Room

Rescheduled
Tue, Jun 10, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
New date Tuesday, June 17, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Tue, Jun 10, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Tue, Jun 10, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Wed, Jun 11, 10:00am - 11:00am

Wed, Jun 11, 11:00am - 11:45am
Community Meeting Room

Wed, Jun 11, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Thu, Jun 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
Community Meeting Room

Thu, Jun 12, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Community Meeting Room

Thu, Jun 12, 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Fri, Jun 13, All day

Fri, Jun 13, All day

Sat, Jun 14, 9:30am - 11:30am

Mon, Jun 16, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Meeting Room,Memorial Plaza

Mon, Jun 16, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Community Meeting Room
This event is full

Tue, Jun 17, 10:00am - 10:30am
Community Meeting Room,Memorial Plaza

Tue, Jun 17, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Board Room

Tue, Jun 17, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Rescheduled
Tue, Jun 17, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
New date Tuesday, June 10, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Wed, Jun 18, 10:00am - 11:00am

Wed, Jun 18, 11:30am - 1:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Wed, Jun 18, 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Community Meeting Room

Wed, Jun 18, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Sat, Jun 21, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Meeting Room

Tue, Jun 24, 10:00am - 10:30am
Community Meeting Room,Memorial Plaza

Wed, Jun 25, 10:00am - 11:00am

Wed, Jun 25, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Board Room
This event is full

Wed, Jun 25, 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Community Meeting Room

Wed, Jun 25, 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Board Room

Thu, Jun 26, 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Sat, Jun 28, 10:00am - 10:45am
Community Meeting Room

Tue, Jul 01, 10:00am - 10:30am
Community Meeting Room,Memorial Plaza

Wed, Jul 02, 10:00am - 11:00am

Cancelled
Wed, Jul 02, 7:00pm - 8:00pm