This mystery takes you to a scrappy ice-bound town in Russia's frozen north. Club, The New York Public Libraryįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prizeįinalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prizeįinalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award Louis Post-Dispatch, NPR, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, The A. The Washington Post, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, St. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty-open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, 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. Taking us through the year that follows, Disappearing Earth enters the lives of women and girls in this tightly knit community who are connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. One August afternoon, two sisters-Sophia, eight, and Alyona, eleven-go missing from a beach on the far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. is a testament to the novel's power.” - The New York Times Book Review Phillips's deep examination of loss and longing. A propulsive, emotionally engaging debut novel about the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
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