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Disappearing Earth

Disappearing Earth

Book 2020

"One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two sisters, eight and eleven, go missing. In the ensuing months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly-woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Social and ethnic tensions have long...