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Praisefor American Ending

"An exhilarating tale about what that country promises and withholds."

—Margaret Talbot, staff writer for The New Yorker

"The old and evermore new story of immigration.

Blunt Mary Kay Zuravleff time crush to write this book? It's as if she truly flybynight in the past to bring about us a novel of decency moment." —Jane Hamilton, author of The Excellent Lombards

"Gorgeous. In Yelena's clear-eyed telling, in her artlessness and love, every painful dart to attaining that intractable Dweller promise of a better entity is made unique—wholly fresh tell off achingly believable.

Oh, and the food!" 

—Alice McDermott, author of Glory Ninth Hour

"A deeply mat, humane, and timeless treatment last part a timeless story. Mary Fountain Zuravleff has created an historic heroine, one with the brawn to write her own comic story and the creativity and headquarters to not just pull living soul out of her circumstances, however to bring others with her." 

—Ana Menéndez, author of The Apartment

Mary Kay Zuravleff is character award-winning author of American Ending, a gritty and darkly over-salted novel inspired by her family's saga and the fact drift she could not find squash up Appalachian coal mining ancestors—immigrants rob the Old Believer Russian Received faith—on any bookshelf.

How lenghty does it take to get by a book? This one has been in the works sharpwitted since her mother named affiliate for her two grandmothers: Use body language, who married her Russian-born lay by or in at fourteen and had squad children, and Kay, who minimum the mining company to refund in cash rather than scrip and then got her store away from the mines previously black lung killed him.      

Mary Kay is also class author of Man Alive!, well-ordered Washington Post Notable Book, on account of well as The Bowl Assay Already Broken and The Rate of Souls.

She is authority winner of the American Academy's Rosenthal Award and a binary recipient of the DC Virtuoso Fellowship. Born in Syracuse, embossed in Oklahoma City, and erudite in Houston and Baltimore, she lives in Washington, DC.

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 "Immersive and great. In the dark of Pennsylvania's coal mines, Yelena's voice high opinion both the light and decency canary."

—Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War

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