Bibliograph

It will end with us, a novel, Sam Savage

Type

Label

It will end with us, a novel, Sam Savage

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

It will end with us

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Sam Savage

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A slim but powerful poetic novel that tells the expansive story of a Southern woman's memories of her mother and a vanishing world. It Will End With Us is Sam Savage's latest deep dive into the mind and voice of a character, and his most personal work yet. With the raw materials of language and remembrance, Eve builds a memorial to the mother who raised her, emotionally abandoned her, and shaped her in her own image. Eve's memories summon a childhood in rural South Carolina, a decaying house on impoverished soil, and an insular society succumbing to the influences of a wider world. It Will End With Us is a portrait of a place full of hummingbirds and wild irises, but also of frustration and grief. It is the story of a family tragedy, provoked by a mother's stifled ambitions, and seized by the wide-open gaze of a child. Rarely has a novel so brief taken on so much, so powerfully

Target audience

adult

Classification