![]() But in Phillips’ assured hands, we jump from character to character - and month to month since the kidnapping of the two sisters - in vignette style exploring the depths of the women at the helm of each chapter. ![]() Phillips’ book, albeit only 256 pages (the paperback edition), is hefty in what she is conveying and the many character she is juggling: The beginning offers a list of characters that feels Stephen King-esque in how daunting it may seem to have to keep track of all of these characters as a reader. Like any great novel, Julia Phillips’ 2019 undefinable novel, Disappearing Earth, is ostensibly about one thing - the disappearance of two sisters, Sophia and Alyona (whose interplay at the beginning of the book is so familiar and moving in that way), from Kamchatka in northeastern Russia - but is actually about something else entirely: the ways in which the earth disappears under the feet of women the ways in which whole societies disappear from the earth, as if as an alien civilization (that has double meaning here thanks, Denis!) and the ways in which history, while seemingly having disappeared, finds a way of returning to the present, setting its roots down for the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() My copy of the book, which already looks well-worn. ![]()
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