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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Climax Public Library HOL (Text) 33500013761812 New Checked out 04/11/2023
Fertile Public Library HOL (Text) 33500013761820 New Available -

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250856760
  • ISBN: 1250856760
  • Physical Description: 466 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2023.

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"By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past, and her own mysteriously growing hunger. Combining brilliant prose with breathtaking suspense, Jacqueline Holland's The God of Endings serves as a larger exploration of the human condition in all its complexity, asking us the most fundamental question: is life in this world a gift or a curse?"-- Provided by publisher.
Reviews

  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 February #2
    Collette has changed her name many times. She has lived many lives. And now, as she runs an elite day care in upstate New York, all she wants is quiet and rest. Unfortunately, the hunger that she's felt for hundreds of years is getting harder to resist. Have her many lifetimes finally caught up to her? What will Collette do when faced with yet another end? Holland's debut alternates between Collette's past and her present day. Her long life is measured by the connections she makes with mortals, both good and bad. Collette's fear as her life spirals out of control, as well as her concern and care for her tiny students, humanizes her. The novel is full of the suspense of living a double life and figuring out how to go on when you have very little left to give. Recommended for fans of literary vampire stories that focus on the struggles of immortality, like Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976). Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.
  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 February #2
    Collette has changed her name many times. She has lived many lives. And now, as she runs an elite day care in upstate New York, all she wants is quiet and rest. Unfortunately, the hunger that she's felt for hundreds of years is getting harder to resist. Have her many lifetimes finally caught up to her? What will Collette do when faced with yet another end? Holland's debut alternates between Collette's past and her present day. Her long life is measured by the connections she makes with mortals, both good and bad. Collette's fear as her life spirals out of control, as well as her concern and care for her tiny students, humanizes her. The novel is full of the suspense of living a double life and figuring out how to go on when you have very little left to give. Recommended for fans of literary vampire stories that focus on the struggles of immortality, like Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976). Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.
  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 February #2
    Collette has changed her name many times. She has lived many lives. And now, as she runs an elite day care in upstate New York, all she wants is quiet and rest. Unfortunately, the hunger that she's felt for hundreds of years is getting harder to resist. Have her many lifetimes finally caught up to her? What will Collette do when faced with yet another end? Holland's debut alternates between Collette's past and her present day. Her long life is measured by the connections she makes with mortals, both good and bad. Collette's fear as her life spirals out of control, as well as her concern and care for her tiny students, humanizes her. The novel is full of the suspense of living a double life and figuring out how to go on when you have very little left to give. Recommended for fans of literary vampire stories that focus on the struggles of immortality, like Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976). Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.
  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 February #2
    Collette has changed her name many times. She has lived many lives. And now, as she runs an elite day care in upstate New York, all she wants is quiet and rest. Unfortunately, the hunger that she's felt for hundreds of years is getting harder to resist. Have her many lifetimes finally caught up to her? What will Collette do when faced with yet another end? Holland's debut alternates between Collette's past and her present day. Her long life is measured by the connections she makes with mortals, both good and bad. Collette's fear as her life spirals out of control, as well as her concern and care for her tiny students, humanizes her. The novel is full of the suspense of living a double life and figuring out how to go on when you have very little left to give. Recommended for fans of literary vampire stories that focus on the struggles of immortality, like Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976). Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.

Author Notes

JACQUELINE HOLLAND is a recent graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has been published in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

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