![]() ![]() ![]() We hear from a native woman whose own daughter disappeared years before, as well as from her other daughter and her daughter’s children. ![]() There are the missing Golosovsky girls and their desperate mother unhappy schoolgirls a new mother going out of her mind with boredom and a bitter vulcanologist with a missing dog. Phillips’ focus is on her female characters. Cellphones are as inescapable in Kamchatka as they are anywhere else, even though they’re frequently out of range. ![]() But at the same time, Disappearing Earth is utterly contemporary. The book’s many characters are introduced in the preface, which calls to mind all those classic Russian novels with sprawling casts. The rest of the book concerns both the search for these two girls and the mystery of how they could have vanished on a peninsula all but cut off from the rest of Russia by a mountain range. The book opens when two little white girls are snatched from the seaside by a creep. There are those from the indigenous and the white Russian population. Of course, people do live in Kamchatka, both in real life and in Julia Phillips’ powerful debut novel. Maybe you’ve wondered about the people who live there. You’ve seen it on a map, extending like a swollen appendage from the northeastern edge of Russia into the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk. The Kamchatka Peninsula is one such place. Although it may seem that every square inch of the earth has been mapped, there are still places that are mysterious. ![]()
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