Endling lives up to the promise of author Maria Reva’s previous book, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, a terrific novel-in-stories set in an apartment building in Ukraine. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account
Title: Endling
Author: Maria Reva
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Pages: 352
Reading Maria Reva’s novel Endling , I kept thinking of A. A. Milne’s short, whimsical poem The Four Friends , the latter consisting of an elephant named Ernest, a lion named Leo, a goat named George and a snail, James. Over the course of five stanzas, the largest animals make increasingly ostentatious scenes – Ernest trumpets and raises a rumpus, Leo roars and kicks – while James gives the unheard “huffle of a sn