The Endling

""Keely Jobe's The Endling is an exquisite debut. A novel that goes right to the heart of urgent environmental, gender, and multispecies conversations and practices, and then probes further -- it blooms! I am blown away by the majesty of Jobe's world -- managing voices across species, with an intimacy that speaks to everyone. This is the novel we need to be reading right now."" --Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country ""The Endling is a transformative novel, a real one of a kind. Equal parts tender and feral. An impure delight."" --Jennifer Mills, author of Salvage ""To read The Endling is to engage in a physical act. Of course, this is always true of reading. But the way in which Keely Jobe weaves the rhythms of the bush with the bodily and intellectual processes of her human and nonhuman characters creates a prose that, much like the tangle orchid that snares the character Frank, reaches beyond the page and gathers the reader into its steamy, slippery, and prickly world. This novel is alive in a way that is striking and original."" --Erin Hortle, author of The Octopus and I ""Drawing on her own experience living in a remote all-female commune, an Australian novelist imagines a crisis in such a compound when all of the women mysteriously become pregnant and one of the children turns out to be a boy."" --Matt Witt, World Wide Work ""Enthralling ... Jobe renders the world on the mountain in such vivid detail that it comes alive on the page ... The Endling asks searing questions about what it means to fully embody your beliefs, and what happens when humanity is sacrificed in the name of the greater good."" --Tierney Khan, Books+Publishing