5/28/2023 0 Comments Book review disappearing earth![]() ![]() This structure allows Phillips to do something unique. All of these characters are women, and each one’s life has been impacted in some (often indirect) way by the girls’ disappearance. After introducing the girls on the day of their kidnapping, Phillips spends the rest of the novel bouncing through vignettes about an array of seemingly unrelated characters. This book is centered around the kidnapping of two young girls named Alyona and Sophia, but Phillips tells their story in an unconventional way. By the time you’ve finished the book, you’ll feel as if you just got home from a long, eventful trip to a remote, wintery corner of Russia. In 250 pages, she takes us up and down the peninsula, from the rocky, sheltered bay on the brink of the Pacific Ocean where the novel starts to the snow pounded roads in the remote town of Esso where the story ends. Phillips does a remarkable job giving her reader a sense of place. Before picking this up, I had never heard of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, but after reading it, I felt like I had lived there my entire life. Rarely has a book so thoroughly transported me away from my own life. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips is the perfect novel for a person stuck at home during a global pandemic. ![]()
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