![]() ![]() However, her story does not appear until the end. After the kidnapping, one would expect the novel to focus on the mother of the missing girls. Disappearing EarthĪn underlying theme is how women cope with adversity. The women in the novel may be fictional but their dilemmas are real. It is easy to imagine the same stories taking place in your own backyard. ![]() Global insight offers readers a chance to bond with the characters. ![]() Lost love, adjusting to motherhood, missing children and divorce are just a few of the themes covered. Phillips captures the hopes, dreams and fears women face. There are male characters, but the driving force for each story is a female. While the stories involve women from the Kamchatka Peninsula, a remote area of Russia, the stories are cross cultural. Sometimes obvious, and other times only as the novel unfolds. To a certain extent each chapter could stand alone. Their disappearance is threaded through the stories told month by month for the following year. The reader is exposed to tragedy and loss, maternal love, stoicism, anguish and hope.ĭisappearing Earth begins with the kidnapping of two young girls on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Her writing captures the nuances of life. The debut novel Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips is both compelling and complex. ![]()
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