The God of Endings depicts the life of a ten-year-old girl, Anna, who dies in the 1830s due to tuberculosis. The book begins with the introduction of the protagonist, Anna, describing her home life with her father, a gravestone carver, and brother, Eli. With a tuberculosis epidemic, while Anna’s father is busy making the gravestones for the townsfolk.
Told in alternating chapters, switching from the past to the narrative’s present time of 1984, The God of Endings is the saga of a lonely, immortal woman. It is at once a vampire novel, a psychological thriller, and an exploration of the human condition in general, motherhood in particular.
The book weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman.
The book weaves around the story of Collette LeSange , ( back then Anna) , a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather’s long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past, and her own mysteriously growing hunger.
Combination of an excellent prose with thrilling suspense, The God of Endings serves as a larger exploration of the human condition in all its complexity, posing the readers with the most fundamental question in contemporary times i.e is life in this world a gift or a curse?
