Lada recalls how they would go hiking up the volcano when they were young girls. She is still beautiful in her bikini after all these years. Her old friend Masha, returns from St Petersburg. She gets drunk and everyone goes into the sauna. Author Phillips gives us the setting and backstory. She recalls the summers with her family, herding the deer, cooking around the fire, sleeping in the yurt with the moon shining in.
She likes that Ruslan protects her, and keeps in touch by phone. In the class, she makes a male friend, Chander. But when she takes a dancing class with her room mate Alisa, she is on her own. He wants to know where she is every minute. Kyusha is another character in this Russian town. She is sent to the hospital and taken into the OR. It’s been there for months and she doesn’t realize how serious it is.
It’s also about Diana’s mother Valentine, who goes to the doctor because of a small blister on her chest. But when he scares the bear away by honking the car’s horn, she decides she loves him after all. Katya thinks Max is incompetent and she could never be with him.
There’s also Max and Katya, a couple going camping to a hot springs. She dislikes her and her mother for being different. Diana’s mother doesn’t want her daughter to be with Olya. It is also about two friends, Diana and Olya, high school girls who hang out together. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips, is the story of two sisters, Alyona and Sophia, who disappear from a small community in Russia. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty–densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and 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 a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls–sisters, eight and eleven–go missing.
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