Friday, June 12, 2020--San Antonio
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips was a finalist for the National Book Award and was named the 7th best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly. Its setting is Kamchatka Peninsula in far northeastern Russia where the author spent a year as a Fullbright Scholar doing research and writing. The story details what life is like in the remote area which, even though it is a peninsula, can only be exited by ship or plane due to a large range of mountains blocking it from the rest of the country. It is built around the disappearance of two young girls. All the people in the stories are tied together in one way or another, although the number of them can make it difficult to keep track of who all of them are. It's a good story which I rated 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.
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