The chapters read somewhat like individual short stories, though this is rather a novel of connected pieces. You want to watch how your life will shatter.”ĭisappearing Earth is a beautiful, brilliant book. You want to be intentional about the destruction. “It hurts too much to break your own heart out of stupidity, to leave a door unlocked or a child untended and return to discover that whatever you value most has disappeared. In a series of chapters each following a different woman in a different month of the year following the girls’ disappearance, a web of connected story lines from all over the peninsula slowly come together to resolve the mystery of the missing children. Opinions are divided on what has happened to them- one woman reports seeing a man with the two girls at their last known location, but when she can’t provide the police with any further details even they doubt her claim. In the novel, two young girls disappear from a Russian city on the Kamchatka peninsula. I only wish I’d picked this one up sooner! Such was the case with Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth add on the National Book Award shortlisting and some great reviews, and I was sold. I don’t tend to pick up books just because they’re pretty, but a beautiful cover definitely draws me in to looking at the synopsis more closely.
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