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A Reading & Conversation on March 31, 2021 with Julia Phillips, New York City | As part of the series "Transatlantic Tuesday"


"A superb debut, a nearly flawless novel" is what the New York Times called American author Julia Phillips' first release, which was shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Award: On an August afternoon, two young sisters are kidnapped on the coast of Kamchatka, the remote and rugged peninsula on the far northeastern edge of Russia. In the weeks and months that follow, the police investigation is completely unsuccessful. The echoes of the disappearance of the two sisters reverberate in the tight-knit community like an earthquake, reminding Kamchatka's women in particular of a similar horrific incident among the indigenous population not long ago. Philipps uses thirteen female voices, all connected by unsolved crimes, rivalries, and secrets, to tell what life is like in a divided, male-dominated society and in the shadow of the vanished Soviet Union. Disappearing Earth takes us into the world of a variety of unforgettable women's fates - set against the backdrop of the gray, post-industrial city of Petropavlovsk, the spectacular expanses of the tundra, snow-capped volcanoes, and icy seas. Full of imagination and with enormous empathy for her characters and for the ever-suspicious outsiders of a closed society in faraway no-man's land, the author conveys how the tense relationships between loners and groups, women and their families, society and politics function in contemporary Russia. A former Fulbright Scholar, Julia Phillips has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review. She teaches creative writing at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia and lives in Brooklyn. Disappearing Earth has already been translated into 25 languages.