WINNER OF THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2026 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2026 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2026 ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD • Named A Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail • The New Yorker • CBC • Indigo • Publishers Weekly • The Irish Times • The Observer • The Guardian • The Boston Globe

“Startling and ambitious. . . . A shining novel.” —The New York Times

“[A] satirical tour de force.” —The Globe and Mail

“Dexterous and formally inventive. . . . [Endling] effortlessly resona[tes] with larger ideas, sustained by humour and a sharp and empathetic intelligence.” —The Guardian

“Reva masterfully ramps up the tension and danger page by page. . . . She masterfully brings together seemingly disparate threads by [Endling’s] end, never sacrificing humour along the way.” —Winnipeg Free Press

“Endling is a thrilling ride. . . . Nabokov comes to mind. . . . Reva . . . is breaking down the molecules of fiction to get at a ‘broader, truer truth,’ through her combination of drama, self-examination and, notably, humour.” —Financial Times

“Maria Reva creates beautiful, purposeful chaos. Informed by deep personal loss, her startling metafictional debut novel, Endling, is a forceful mashup of storytelling modes that call attention to its interplay of reality and fiction—a Ukrainian tragicomedy of errors colliding with social commentary about the Russian invasion.” —Los Angeles Times

“Remarkable. . . . [Endling] evokes . . . the survivalist adventure of Octavia Butler’s classic The Parable of the Sower, the sly satire of Percival Everett’s Erasure, the poetic inventions of Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia and Wayward.” —The Washington Post

“A witty, shape-shifting book [that] turns into something trickier and more interesting. . . . Reva’s many strands—the war, the snails, the bride business, the kidnapping, Maria’s writerly anxiety and family ties—dovetail brilliantly.” —NPR

“[A] riotous debut novel. . . . [and] a moving exploration of the pain of creating art, particularly art based on the pain of others.” —The Nation

“[The] choice—to let reality fracture her fiction—is what makes Endling, [Maria Reva’s] debut novel, especially compelling. . . . Strange and brilliant. . . . [An] absurdist, darkly funny novel.” —BOMB

“[Endling] is riveting, heartbreaking and darkly humorous. . . . Undoubtedly one of the best books of the year.” —The Minnesota Star Tribune

“Essential reading. . . . Endling nimbly balances its wider scope with its smallest, shell-bound characters. It spins itself around and phases through its walls. Reva begs you, if not to help, then to care. If not to love, then to hate. To give all ‘endlings’ something—an identity, a person, an expression—to grasp onto when they are eventually left to face the vast world alone.” —The Michigan Daily

"Among the many uncomfortable and incisive questions that Maria Reva asks in her brilliantly metafictional, propulsive, and topical novel set in contemporary Ukraine, is if it should exist at all. Endling’s brilliance lies in Reva’s willingness to yank on the dangling thread of the unanswerable, unraveling the whole genre, only to masterfully stitch it back together again. Written in vivid, clear-eyed prose, at times both hilarious and devastating, Endling is an astonishment.” —2025 Atwood Gibson Prize Jury (Gary Barwin, Ali Bryan, and Jasmine Sealy)

“A fantastic novel. It’s about so much and yet is laser focused. . . . [Endling] turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one.” —Percival Everett, author of James

“Brilliant . . . funny and smart, full of science, longing and adventure, all the while reminding us what the world stands to lose, and what it has already lost. This is essential reading.” —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Tom Lake

“Maria Reva’s dazzling debut novel Endling will take you on a ride you will never forget. . . . Only a supremely talented writer could handle material like this, and Reva—who seems incapable of writing a dud sentence—shows she’s more than up to the task. Open this book, fasten your seatbelt, and brace for impact.” —Ben Fountain, author of Devil Makes Three

“Ironic, sharp, and wise, this is a big (meta)fictional achievement.” —Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs

“Wild, exhilarating, heartbreaking. . . . Over and over again, Endling delivers flashes of beauty and grace and dares us to see hope amidst wreckage and ruin.” —Anelise Chen, author of So Many Olympic Exertions

“Pulses with a powerful sense of urgency and relevance to our times.” —Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept

“A noteworthy literary achievement and also a good story, sure to be widely discussed and enjoyed.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Beyond . . . impeccable coups of characterization, Endling is particularly adept in presenting the peacetime freedoms that the advent of war renders dispensable. . . . Endling is a testament to a novel that could have once existed, but was rendered inutile by the course of history.” —Quill & Quire

“Astonishing . . . This inspired and urgent novel is bound to make a major splash.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“[Endling] is a page-turning, genre-bending meta-novel as entertaining as it is gut-wrenching, whose experiments with literary form will keep readers on their toes.” —Library Journal (starred review)