![]() ![]() ![]() In the rural north of Disappearing Earth, conflicting desires and impulses settle into maturity and acceptance of community expectations. Geography and history constrain patterns of behavior Loosely connected stories through the months of a year reveal the range of emotional impacts these disappearances have on women among the interlinked villages of this peninsula with no roads connected to the outside world. Through this plot twist, Disappearing Earth presents the complex influence of cultural differences, colonialism, and the rural/urban divide on law enforcement and public response to the disappearances, all in the context of post-Soviet Russia. This horrific loss is later juxtaposed with the prior disappearance of an Indigenous Even teen from a remote village family.Äisappearing girls and the complexity of responses The story opens with the kidnapping of two young Russian girls from the region’s largest city, who we understand are Caucasian. Set in the Kamchatka peninsula of far northeastern Russia, debut novelist Julia Phillips writes in Disappearing Earth about the interior worlds of women, the importance of community, and the impacts of gender-based violence on both, with a depth of human insight reminiscent of Tolstoy. ![]() Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips has relevance for Alaska ![]()
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