It seems like an exaggeration to describe a book as devastating, but Disappearing Earth fits the bill. Set in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, Julia Phillips’ novel explores families, biases, fear of immigrants, and the pain of loss through a variety of characters whose lives touch at the margins following the disappearance of two small girls from …
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through the darkness
Lydia Fitzpatrick tells the story of two brothers growing up in Russia who dream of a life in America in her book Lights All Night Long. As Fitzpatrick weaves together the past and current adventures of Ilya and Vladimir, two young men being raised by a single mother in the shadow of a Russian oil …
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