Join us for a Get Lit discussion of Di sappearing Earth by Julia Phillips.
\nOne August afternoon\, tw o sisters--Sophia\, eight\, and Alyona\, eleven--go missing from a beach o n the far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. Taking us thro ugh the year that follows\, \;Disappearing Earth \;enters the live s of women and girls in this tightly knit community who are connected by t he crime: a witness\, a neighbor\, a detective\, a mother. We are transpor ted to vistas of rugged beauty--open expanses of tundra\, soaring volcanoe s\, dense forests\, the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring\, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered\, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused . In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging\, Julia Phillips' s powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds o f family and community\, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
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