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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a darkly glittering novel (The New York Times) that brings to mind Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles.A beautifully written, thoughtprovoking book about life at the end.Refinery29In Domenica Rutas profoundly original novel, the end of the world comes once a year. Every May 28, humanity gathers to anticipate the planets demiseand to celebrate as if the day is truly its last.On this holiday, three intersecting sets of characters embark on a possibly lastchance quest for redemption. In Boston, bookish wunderkind Sarah is looking for love and maybe a cosmic reversal from the much older Kurt, a tattoo artist she met at last years Last Day BBQbut hes still trying to make amends to the family he destroyed long ago. Dysfunctional Karen keeps getting into trouble, especially when the voices shes been hearing coax her to abandon everything to search for her longlost adoptive brother; her friend Rosette has left the Jehovahs Witnesses to follow a new pastor at the Last Kingdom on Earth, where she brings Karen on this fateful day. Meanwhile, above them all, three astronauts on the International Space Station, Bear, an American; Russian Svec; and billionaire Japanese space tourist Yui, contemplate their lives as well as their precious Earth from afar.With sparkling wit, verbal ingenuity, and wild imagination, Ruta has created an alternate world in which an ancient holiday brings into stark reflection our deepest dreams, desires, hopes, and fears. In this tourdeforce debut novel she has written a dazzling, haunting love letter to humanity and to our planet.Praise for Last DayIn Rutas fiction debut, each May 28 people around the world gather to celebrate what could be the end of the world. The author chooses seven quite different characters, tied together in various ways (romantically, for one pair; orbiting Earth on a space station for three others). Her focus on individual needs and choices as disaster potentially looms gives her story emotional heft.The Washington PostDomenica Rutas empathy is broad and deep, her prose finegrained, her humor sharp but tender. Last Day is a lifeaffirming antidote to these preapocalyptic times.Teddy Wayne, author of Loner
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