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Ruta, Domenica.
Subjects
Redemption -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Astronauts -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Ruta, Domenica.
Redemption -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Astronauts -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Last
day
: a
novel
/ by Domenica Ruta.
by
Ruta, Domenica.
Spiegel & Grau, 2019.
Call #:
FICTION RUT
Subjects
Redemption -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Astronauts -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780525510819 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
258 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a thought-provoking debut that brings to mind such novels as Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles. In Domenica Ruta's profoundly original debut
novel
, the end of the world comes every year. Or at least it's supposed to. On May 3, humanity comes together to anticipate the planet's demise--and to celebrate as if the
day
were truly their
last
. Sarah is a bookish teenager infatuated with Kurt, a tattoo artist, whom she met at her parents'
Last
Day
celebration a year earlier. Kurt is still haunted with guilt over his role in the death of his young love and wants to make holiday amends to her family. Karen is a misfit with a dysfunctional background who works at the local YMCA, where she keeps getting into trouble--especially when she sets off to find a long-lost adoptive brother. Her friend Rosette has left the Jehovah's Witnesses to follow a new pastor at the Kingdom of God, where she brings Karen on this fateful
Last
Day
. Meanwhile, in space, a group of international astronauts--an American, a Russian, and a billionaire Japanese space tourist--observe
Last
Day
from afar. With sparkling wit, dazzling vividness, and wild imagination,
Last
Day
is an exciting introduction of a literary talent--and by the end a haunting meditation on the fate of humanity and our planet"--Publisher.
Genre:
Apocalyptic fiction.
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