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Julia Phillips' Debut Novel 'Disappearing Earth' Reimagines Detective Fiction
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Surrounded by mountains and the sea, Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula is extremely isolated; there aren’t even roads or rail lines to the area. In Julia Phillips’ new novel, it’s the site where two young Russian sisters vanish one afternoon after walking along the seashore.
Disappearing Earth is not a mystery or true crime novel. There’s no detective discovering long-held secrets among the townsfolk, no red herrings nor a final reveal. Instead, the novel explores a series of stories about women and girls affected by – and connected to – the panic surrounding the loss.
On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott speaks with Julia Phillips.
Disappearing Earth was recently named to the Center for Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Long List, and Phillips will be at the AJC Decatur Book Festival on Sunday, Sept. 1.
First, she joined On Second Thought to talk about why she chose to set her novel in Kamchatka, how her experiences traveling with reindeer herders shaped her writing, and the cultural parallels between post-Soviet Kamchatka and parts of rural America today.
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