![]() ![]() The large cast of characters is well-defined in a helpful list of families and their members given at the beginning of the book. The novel follows the ripples and echoes of their disappearance in various people’s lives. It opens with disappearance of two young sisters, Alyona and Sophia Golosovskaya, ages eleven and eight, from their hometown of Petropavlovsk in far eastern Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the territory’s only metropolis. ![]() Phillips writes multiple story lines each with its own narrator, and the full account plays out over the course of a year. Julia Phillips’s debut novel, Disappearing Earth, is structured somewhat akin to Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. ![]()
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