Endling Reading Guide (Continued)

Girls' School Book Club -- August Week 2

Focus Text: Endling by Maria Reva
Theme: Literary Devices: Postmodernism — Metafiction
Live Zoom Meeting: Thursday, August 28 at 6pm PST
(Link posted: Wednesday, August 27)

Welcome to Week 2

There’s too much in Endling to move on already! Also it’s long so if you’re not to Rich Girl Nation yet, just enjoy the book. It’s one of my favorite novels in a loooong time—you know I adore metafiction.

This is your second of four curated reading guides this month. These prompts are meant to provoke, not prescribe. Bring your questions and hot takes to the live discussion (and to the page – see the optional Book Report prompt after the reading questions to be featured on my Substack and/or TikTok).

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Week 2 Focus: Postmodernism — Magical Realism

Postmodernism

I was introduced to postmodernism in college and I fell head over heels, though at first I couldn’t tell if it was because of the subject or who taught it (a literal GQ model professor — so hot). Once I untangled my textual from my sexual, I realized that yes, I loved them both. He taught it through Jazz, The Crying of Lot 49, and The Things They Carried, and I tend to teach it through poetry: