National Book Award Finalist and recipient of the Young Lions fiction Award, Salvatore Scibona’s debut novel The End introduces readers to an important voice in American fiction. The book takes place on August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in northern Ohio. As the festivities reach a riotous pitch and billow into the streets, five members of the community labor under the weight of a terrible secret. And slowly, it becomes clear that buried deep in the hearts of these five exquisitely drawn characters is the long-silenced truth about the crime that twisted each of their worlds.