Endling

An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a maverick scientist who scours the country`s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to settle down and start a family of her own. What they don`t know: Yeva already dates plenty of men-not for love, but to fund her work-entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they`ll find docile brides untainted by feminism. Nastia and her sister, Solomiya, are also entangled in the booming marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator while secretly searching for their missing mother, who vanished after years of fierce activism against the romance tours. So begins a journey of a lifetime across a country on the brink of war: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species.